Despite pleas from President Goodluck Jonathan, the Northern Governors Forum are bent on rejecting Mfon Akpan as Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the governors are insisting the position must be filled with a northerner.
After a meeting of the
Northern Governors forum on Saturday, the senators vowed to resist the
appointment of President Jonathan's nominee as it allegedly violated the
Federal Character principle.
A senator who spoke
anonymously said, “We are united this time round on the FIRS slot going to the
North, after the South-south has occupied it for almost 10 years.
“Also, on merit, we want to
know why the acting FIRS Chairman, Kabir Mashi, who had shot up the revenue of
the agency from above ₦3.4 trillion to about ₦6 trillion, is not qualified.
“Of about 800 chartered
accountants in the FIRS, 10 are in the directorate cadre. Yet, the government
did not find any of these Nigerians qualified to lead the agency. Something
must be wrong.”
Another senator accused the
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of being the force behind the
president's nomination of Mfon Akpan.
However, Chief Godswill
Akpabio, Governor of Akwa Ibom State will today lead a lobbying team to the
senate to back Akpan’s nomination.
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