Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for the immediate disengagement of former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdullahi Maina, is an afterthought.

He said the President only acted to save his face from the global embarrassment caused him by the outcry of Nigerians on the news of Maina’s reinstatement.

The governor demanded immediate arrest and trial of Maina as well as the dismissal of all those who perpetrated his reinstatement, which he described as fraudulent and shameful.

Fayose in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, likened Buhari’s anti-corruption fight to a situation where “Satan is calling Judas Iscariot a sinner.”

He said he had been vindicated because he warned Nigerians before now that the kind of corruption that would be witnessed in Buhari’s government would be unprecedented.

“If Maina, who was declared wanted for corrupt practices by the International Police Organisation, after he was dismissed from office by the Civil Service Commission in 2013 for allegedly committing N2.1bn pension fraud while in office, could be secretly reinstated and even promoted without writing the required civil service promotion examination, no one should be in doubt any longer that Buhari is not fighting any corruption.

“Even the former Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, who was accused of corruption by the Senate, removed from office unceremoniously and declared wanted is now the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos.

“When the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Ibe Kachikwu raised allegation of award of $25bn contracts without following due process against the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, the Presidency was the one that defended him (Baru).

“Also, President Buhari has refused to act on the report of the committee that investigated the $43m discovered in an apartment at Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, despite that Nigerians have been asking him to act on it.

“Even the Acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu was indicted of corruption by the Department of State Service and all that was done by President Buhari was to ask the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to investigate the DSS report. Up till today, nothing has been heard about it and Magu, despite his rejection by the Senate, is still acting as the EFCC chairman.

“It was also under this government of Buhari that Ahmed Gambo Saleh; the Supreme Court Registrar was indicted and put on trial for alleged over N2bn fraud. The case against Gambo Saleh was withdrawn almost immediately, and he has been appointed the Secretary of the National Judicial Council. Not only that, he was made the Secretary of the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee, headed by Retired Justice Isa Ayo Salami.”

GavelSlam:
Afterthought, beforehand, between thought, he has taken the right decision.

clevvermind:
I KNOW YOU WOULD DEFEND YOUR MASTER.

GavelSlam:


I will defend the president for making the right decision.
Especially when his detractors are people with a putrid history of larceny and subterfuge.

By the way he's your master too.

GavelSlam:


I will defend the president for making the right decision.
Especially when his detractors are people with a putrid history of larceny and subterfuge.

By the way, he's your master too.

Beress:

Stop been a zombie... Buhari was aware of his reinstatement

clevvermind:
SUCH A PERSON THAT IS INSENSITIVE TO THE PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE CANNOT BE MY MASTER.

GavelSlam:


Dey there.

He's your boss, your leader, your president.

If in doubt, any day he's passing go ahead of his convoy.

clevvermind:
YOU CAN CONTINUE TO LICK HIS ASS.

GavelSlam:
Afterthought, beforehand, between thought, he has taken the right decision.

GavelSlam:


Buhari's victory of 2015 really hurts you guys.

Then you guys said he had died in London only for the man to rise from the ashes like the phoenix he is.

GavelSlam:


I will defend the president for making the right decision.
Especially when his detractors are people with a putrid history of larceny and subterfuge.

By the way, he's your master too.

otil1:



First "right" decision was to restate a criminal and fugitive.

Second "right" decision was to direct that he be sacked after we the public found out. (As yourself how many we have not found out)

We now await 3rd right decision, to identify, apprehend and prosecute all that were involved in the shameful restatement.

That's when I will listen to you Sir

otil1:


You again!


Forget the 2015 election and address your life today.

Is what you are hearing left, right, and centre good for your nation?

Speak out against evil and evil shall not befall you.

GavelSlam:
Afterthought, beforehand, between thought, he has taken the right decision.

tuniski:

An apologist sighted! Let him sack the facilitators and resign himself. That is the only right action.

GavelSlam:


Who reinstated him?

The president?

None of us can knows who did.

What we do know is that when the president got into the public domain the president acted.

If you prefer to wail, that would be your personal decision.

So far, the president as acted on realising a bad situation.

GavelSlam:


Don't you guys get tired?

From the minute he was sworn in you've been plotting his impeachment, prayed for his death, attempted to ridicule his health and age, sought his resignation.

Pathetic lot.