MAINA’S REINSTATEMENT: We were shocked like everyone else- APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Tuesday stated that it was shocked by the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, into the Federal Civil Service, saying that “it is almost unbelievable that such a thing can happen”.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, who stated this while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, called the development embarrassing and unacceptable.

Maina was said to have been dismissed from the Federal Civil Service for absconding from work and evading arrest over his alleged involvement in the looting of pension funds to the tune of N100 billion.

He was however reinstatement and posted to the Ministry of Interior, a development that generated much controversy and led to his sack by President Muhammadu Buhari.

It has also led to investigative processes instituted by both the executive and the legislature, seeking to uncover the role played by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, and others.

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Abdullahi said, “We are all shocked like any other person. It is almost unbelievable that such a thing can happen.

“However, we are all delighted that President Muhammadu Buhari has taken very decisive punitive action against those that are involved.

“We are also delighted that he has ordered full scale investigation into the circumstances that led to this individual to be reinstated into the public office,’’ he said.

Abudullahi added that the APC believed that those who would be found to have played a part in the unfortunate development would face appropriate consequences.

He, however, dismissed insinuations that the president was shielding the suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, over corruption allegations.

The APC spokesman expressed confidence that the president would do what was right in both cases, in the best interest of the nation.

“Action will definitely be taken on them. I think we should just be kind and wait for the president to take action on that before we come to the conclusion that he has not acted”, he said.

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