The Committee for the Protection
of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), an activist group, has demanded that the Federal
Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) produce tax receipts belonging to Atiku Abubakar,
presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In a letter sent to the FIRS
dated November 16, and signed by Nelson Ekujumi, the group’s national
coordinator, Abubakar was accused of evading tax for several years.
The group said he only paid the
backlog from 2015 to 2017 in order to meet up with the requirements of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to contest the presidential
election.
CPPM alleged that Abubakar only
used his 2017 tax receipt to fill the presidential nomination forms.
A copy of Abubakar’s tax
clearance certificate showed that the PDP presidential candidate was issued the
certificate on April 19, 2018, for payment of his personal income tax for 2015,
2016, and 2017.
A separate receipt was issued by
the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCTIRS) for N4 million
paid as tax for the year 2017.
The payment date captured on the
receipt was April 12, 2018.
The group threatened to take the
matter to court if the FIRS did not honour its request for the tax receipts, to
prove whether Atiku paid his taxes at the right time or not.
“We are Nigerians committed to
enthrone honesty and integrity in public office and the sustenance of true
democracy,” the letter read.
“It is in this regard that we
write to you under Section 1 (1) and (2) and Section 4(a) of the Freedom of
Information Act to make available to us the 2015 and 2016 Personal Income Tax
receipts of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) for the 2019 Presidential elections.
“Information at our disposal is
that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar DID NOT PAY HIS Personal Income Tax for several
years and only ran to the FIRS in April this year to pay the back-log of only
his 2015 – 2017 taxes to meet up with the requirements of INEC. Hence, in
filing his INEC forms, he only produced his receipt for 2017 tax which was paid
in April, 2018.
“As someone who continuously says
he is interested in getting Nigeria and its economy working again, it is
important Nigerians know whether he has been paying his Personal Income Taxes
AS AT WHEN DUE.
“Consequently, we request for his
2015 and 2016 Tax receipts to ascertain whether he paid his taxes AS AT WHEN
DUE.
“TAKE NOTICE that you are to meet
our demands within SEVEN (7) working days of the receipt of this letter.”
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