Thursday 26 October 2017

“Stop insulting Nigerians or seeing them as fools”, Jonathan speaks on Maina’s return

FILE PHOTO: President Muhammadu Buhari (R) welcoming Former President Goodluck Jonathan  to the  Presidential Villa today (3/8/16) 5466/03/08/2016/ICE//NAN
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday pushed back against “absurd” attempts by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to link him to the unfolding scandal of how a fugitive returned to the country and took a senior position in public service.


Mr. Jonathan said the fact that efforts are being made to link him to the return and reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina underscored how “uncoordinated and rudderless” the Buhari administration has become.

“Are they saying it is President Jonathan that flew him back into Nigeria and promoted him in two levels ahead of where he was as at 2013 when he fled the from civil service?” Mr. Jonathan’s spokesperson, Ikechukwu Eze, told Premium Times Wednesday night.

“They should stop insulting Nigerians or seeing them as fools,” Mr. Eze said. Mr. Buhari has come under intense public backlash since last week Friday when Premium Times uncovered Mr. Maina’s surreptitious return to civil service.
Mr. Maina was declared wanted by the EFCC on allegations of courting billions in public funds for his own use when he headed the pension reform task force.

The pension funds scandal broke out during Mr. Jonathan’s administration (2010-2015), and the government took disciplinary steps against Mr. Maina by dismissing him from service.
Mr. Maina was an assistant director at the time of his dismissal.


Premium Times 

1 comment:

  1. APC government have shown Nigerians the real meaning of magic, the more you look the less you see( BRAKATABRA) can Nigerians be wise 2019/is by the corner can we expressly reject this impostors who came as sheep and turned to be lions. I am begging Nigerians to be wise nobody can rig elections where he is not popular, we can resist them with our voters card,let's chase them away very very fer from us they have destroyed Nigeria, the Buhari integrity have everporated and gone with the winds. Nigeria today isnat the mercy of gluttons

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