Senators from Northern Nigeria have held a secret meeting on Thursday after the Senate passed the tax reform bills for a second reading.
They met in room 301 for about two hours without details of the meeting made public.
Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua, declined comment after the session.
Earlier on Thursday, the Senate agreed that governors, traditional rulers, and other stakeholders should be invited to attend a public hearing on the bills.
Controversy had trailed the bills.
The National Economic Council had risen from its last meeting recommending that the bills should be withdrawn, a recommendation which President Bola Tinubu rejected, asking that anybody who had anything on the bills should make a presentation at a public hearing on the bills.
Since then, individuals and groups mostly from the north have not only condemned the bills but rejected them and asked that they be withdrawn.
They argued that the bills would worsen the already weak economy of the region that is suffering from insecurity, banditry and kidnappings.
