Northern Governors’ Forum will on Monday (today) hold an emergency meeting to discuss issues relating to the Value Added Tax.

It was further gathered that the planned meeting, which would be hosted by Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru  El-Rufai, would be presided over by the Chairman of the forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong.

Coordinator of the Northern Governors Forum Secretariat and  Secretary to the Plateau State Government, Danladi Atu, confirmed the planned meeting in an interview with The PUNCHin Jos on Sunday.

The Federal High Court sitting in Port  Harcourt had in a judgment last month held that Rivers State had the power to collect VAT within its jurisdiction.

But Federal Inland Revenue Service headed for the Court of Appeal to challenge the judgment. At the appeal court, Lagos State filed an application that it should be joined with Rivers State as a co-defendant in the appeal filed by the FIRS.

The appeal court ordered parties in the suit to maintain status quo pending the determination of the appeal.

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