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Naija Newsunderstands Rivers state Government had in return approached the nation’s Apex court, the Supreme court toset aside the rulingof the appellate court on grounds that the lower court erred in ordering status quo after it earlier held that the application for joinder by Lagos State must be heard first before the motion for stay and interlocutory injunction by the FIRS.
Despite the CJN’s denial, Wike’s reason for briefly relocating to Abuja with the state’s commissioner of finance may be related to the case.
FIRS had earlier approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the judgement of the Federal High Court in Rivers State which ruled on August 9 that the state, and not the FIRS, should collect VAT and Personal Income Tax in Rivers.
Wike’s trip to Abuja comes after the Appeal Court had said it reserved ruling on the application for a joinder filed by the Lagos State Government.
The appellant had maintained that the appellate court lacks the powers to set aside its judgment, which held that the Lagos application for joinder must be taken before any other application..
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