The Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole has called on governors opposing the new tax bills introduced by President Bola Tinubu to get on the negotiation table to get what they want.

Oshiomhole, who is also a former Edo State governor made this call while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’sPolitics Today Program on Wednesday.

Reacting to the opposition of some of the governors on the bill, Oshiomhole said the bill is better debated at public hearings than dropping it.

The lawmaker also said when debates assume ethnic and religious lines, the first casualty is truth and reason.

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He, therefore, said talks that the bills when they become laws that would favour one region against another should be discarded.

However, he said the president should not expect the bills to return to him exactly the way they were presented to the National Assembly.

“And therefore it is the Nigerian people who should look at these things constructively and say: ‘Is it in our interest?

“But in the real world, nobody gets what he wants; you get what you negotiate and it is more so in a democracy,” he stated