By Kingston Magare 6.1.2026
Lagos State governorship aspirant Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, said President Bola Tinubu’s administration has no justification to impose more tax on Nigerians, since it has failed to account for savings from the removal of the petrol subsidy.
Mr. Rhodes-Vivour who contested the 2023 governorship elections under the banner of the Labour Party said in a statement Tuesday, that the government was only interest in imposing tax that would not improve on the life of the masses, but used to fund the vanities of the political class.
“For government to demand more, it must show what it did with the little. You can’t claim to have saved trillions from subsidy removal and not many meaningful people centric projects or programmes can be pointed to,” Mr. Rhodes-Vivour
Mr Rhodes-Vivour said that while taxes were essential for modern governments to function optimally, it must be used judiciously to develop the country and its people.
“Taxes are important. Improving our tax-to-GDP ratio, even more so. A functioning state needs resources, and taxation is how modern governments fund development, infrastructure, and social services.
“When those taxes fund the outlandish vanities of the ruling class, it destroys the social contract and turns citizens into working slaves. This, for me, is unacceptable,” he stated.
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