The Presidency on Wednesday said the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) had no moral right to level any accusations against the current
government in respect of Abdulrasheed Maina, the embattled former head of the
presidential team on pension reforms.
In a statement sent to Premium Times, Garba Shehu, the senior
special assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, described Mr. Maina
as one of the monsters created by the former PDP government, and which are
still rearing their ugly heads long after the Party was soundly defeated in the
2015 elections.
“Over and over again, the President Buhari government has
pointed out that the administration’s greatest problem is the mess left behind
by the previous government. Maina is just one more example,” he said.
Referring to document records from the investigations that led
to the disgrace of the former pension boss and his being declared wanted by the
EFCC, Mr. Shehu noted that Mr. Maina was not the only top member of the former
government involved in the multibillion naira pensions scandal, but a man
warmly ensconced in the bosom of power.
“Top officials in the PDP government, from sectoral heads, to
those charged with responsibility for law and order received some of these
billions of naira from Maina,” the presidential spokesperson said. “We have all
the transaction records and these are matters that the EFCC has been pursuing
to ensure that they all have their day in court.”
Mr. Shehu hinted that some influential officials loyal to the
previous government may have been the invisible hand in the latest scandal that
saw the return of Maina to the public service, despite being on the EFCC’s
wanted list. He, however, assured Nigerians that President Buhari was
determined to get to the bottom of the matter of the impunity that led to Mr.
Maina’s reinstatement.
“Everything will be uncovered in due course,” he said. “This
just goes to show us the scale of corruption that this government is fighting.
And, as we can all see, corruption keeps fighting back viciously.”
-Premium Times
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