Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Guber race: I’ll be Abia gov in 2015 on PDP platform –Nwosu

One of the governorship aspirants on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Chief Friday Nwosu, has said despite the fact that primaries had been concluded and a candidate emerged, he will become the governor of the state in 2015 on the platform of PDP.

Nwosu, who stated this while addressing his supporters at his country home of Mgboko Umuori in Obingwa Local Government Area, said his optimism hinged on his faith in God and for the fact that some people who were jostling to carry PDP’s flag in 2015 had bad records of tax payment.
His words: “Since January 1, 1984 when I joined the Nigeria Police, I have been paying my tax regularly. Again since 2007, when I relocated to Abuja, I handed over my tax matters to experts who have been handling it professionally and have been paying my tax as at when due.
“But some of us in the race who paid tax for the first time, paid four years under one day. 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 were paid one day, claiming business as their source of income as if they were businessmen. When voices were raised on this, the same people changed gear and claimed that they were government workers. These people went and brought different set of tax receipts claiming that they now paid under pay as you earn (PAYE) and yet the tax receipts were issued in such a way as if Abia is a state of one man and one taxpayer.”
Nwosu said to make matters worst, available records indicated that the 2013 tax was paid before that of 2011, while in one of the tax receipts, according to him, its date showed it was paid on a Saturday which was not a working day.
He said: “To make matters worst, records show that 2013 was paid before 2011, there is no way 2013 will come before 2011, even the date on one of the tax receipts fell on a Saturday whereas government offices do not open on such days. Having paid tax before as a businessman and now as a government worker, the implication of this is that one person paid two different sets of taxes in a given year.”
Nwosu, who claimed that the attention of the PDP leadership at the national level had been drawn to these anomalies and the inherent danger it posed to the party, said if a person with such poor records of tax payment should be allowed to carry the flag of the party in 2015, that the opposition would take over the state even when PDP had won at the polls.
“Abia State is a PDP state, there is no doubt about that, but if the person with such records of tax payment is allowed to carry the banner of PDP in the state, the opposition will not even need to campaign for votes but sit down and wait for the election to be over and then go to court and get the governorship seat and PDP would have laboured in vain,” he said.

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