Fayose to Maina: Name the thieves in Buhari’s govt, says “EFCC has become Falana’s meal ticket”
By TUNDE BADMUS
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has challenged the former
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr
Abdullahi Maina, to go ahead and tell Nigerians those thieves that he
alleged were surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari in his government
and answer the corruption allegations against him as well as his
fraudulent reinstatement.
Governor Fayose described the Maina’s interview shown on Channels
Television yesterday, as explosive, saying he was sure that President
Buhari will look the other way just as he did on the allegation of
award of $25 billion contracts without following due process made
against the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); Dr.
Maikanti Baru, by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu
and many others.
In a statement on Tuesday, by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose, said he
had again been vindicated on his position that the kind of corruption
being perpetrated in President Buhari’s government was unprecedented
and mind-boggling.
He said; “The Maina’s challenge is another opportunity for President
Buhari to proof to Nigerians that he is actually fighting corruption.
But I am sure that since it again bothers on his closest men, he won’t
do anything.”
Governor Fayose said it was important for Maina to wash himself clean
of the N2.1 Billion pension fraud that made him escaped from the
country and earned him dismissal from the civil service.
The governor, who challenged Maina to name those in Buhari’s
government that are thieves, noted that “There is no need waiting for
the President to conduct public inquiry on the pension scam, Maina
should just go ahead and tell Nigerians who the thieves among Buhari’s
men are.
“Even after naming them, Maina should not expect any action from the
President. Rather, he should be contented with satisfying his
conscience and putting those Buhari’s men that he said are pretending
to be saints in the court of public opinion.”
While maintaining his position on the self-appointed human rights
lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), over the allegation by the Attorney
General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), linking the lawyer
to a N1 billion property on Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja, Governor
Fayose said it was sad that Falana and his collaborators have turned
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to their source of
huge income.
“EFCC has become Falana’s daily meal. Falana and his collaborators
live on EFCC. They have turned themselves to brokers of bail and
suppliers of lawyers to accused persons while at the same buying
seized properties at ridiculous amount.
“Even the likes of Madaki, who have retired from service, have been
brought back into the system so that he can continue to help them to
perpetrate fraud,” he said.
