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| Mr Chris Agara |
Nyok|2 October 2018
‘And you all know that you don’t get text clearances if you don’t pay your tax, you have to get the receipt first before they can issue you the tax clearance. I also have one in Rivers state that’s a payee clearance. Because in my company I am on allowance and I pay tax just as every other employee so that does not require any way a tax clearance.
Pictures they say don’t lie: according to the above photograph being currently circulated online by Mr Emmanuel Ulayi, Special Assistant —Media to the Governor of Cross River State, Barr Chris Agara haven’t been cleared to stand for the forthcoming PDP primary for Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Rather Mr Onor Sandy Ojang, Walter Iteky Ajogbor, Egbara Blessing Otobha, Hon Bassey Oko Ewa and Wilfred Okpo Usani have all being cleared.
However, in a statement credited to Barr Agara last week, he said he was not disqualified. Quoting a report from TDN, Agara said, ‘I was never disqualified there were just some issues that needed clarification which has been done. There were rumours that I didn’t attach tax receipt to the form I filled and submitted for screening if you ask me that was not supposed to be an issue because I had my tax clearance certificate from both Rivers and Cross River States that was attached to my form.
‘And you all know that you don’t get text clearances if you don’t pay your tax, you have to get the receipt first before they can issue you the tax clearance. I also have one in Rivers state that’s a payee clearance. Because in my company I am on allowance and I pay tax just as every other employee so that does not require any way a tax clearance.
‘To me that’s a mischieve, if you ask me by anybody who may have done such a report. Like I said I have not seen it myself. There’s a supreme court judgement where it was clearly said that tax cases are not the basis of dertmaining of withdrawing the candidature of a person.To me this are all rumours. I don’t see any reason why I should be disqualified, so I was told my clearance certificate with me is still valid.
“So nobody has disqualified me am still in the race. My chances of clinching the party’s ticket are brighter and better than before. You know sometimes some things happen for their own reason, they probably put you in public domain much more than it was supposed to be, so I think this is a good omen for me and I am very much confident like before and even beyond that I am going to win.’
Who’d be believed —Agara or Col Austin Akobundu (Rtd) the National Organising Secretary of the PDP? Is this Onor Sandy Ojang the caterpillar coasting to victory!?
Nyok
Is the Blogger-in-Chief, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher of NEGROIDHAVEN
