The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Bola Tinubu to suspend the proposed salary increase for political office holders.
Sunday Telegraph has earlier reported that the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) announced it’s plan to increase the salary of office holders including the President, Vice-President, Governors, their deputies, and lawmakers.
In a letter dated Saturday, August 23, 2025, and signed by SERAP Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation described the proposal as “Patently unlawful and unconstitutional.”
SERAP urged Tinubu to direct the RMAFC to halt the pay rise, which it argues violates Nigeria’s Constitution and international human rights obligations.
The organization also called on the President and Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to comply with a 2021 Federal High Court ruling by Justice Chuka Austine Obiozor, which mandated the RMAFC to review and reduce lawmakers’ salaries to . . Continue..Reading. .
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