The Presidency has fingered former President Goodluck Jonathan’s loyalists in the reinstatement of the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

It said the People’s Democratic Party had no moral right to level any accusations against the current government in respect to the embattled former pension boss.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said this in a statement Wednesday night.

Shehu stated: “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.”

Shehu described Maina as one of “the monsters created 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 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 the EFCC, Shehu said Maina was not the only a top member of the former government involved in the multi billion 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.

 “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,” Shehu stated.

He assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari was determined to get to “the bottom of the matter of the impunity that led to Maina’s reinstatement.”
Source: Daily Trust