Recovery of pension cash: Ex-governors in Senate set to challenge court order granted AGF

A sustained legal battle may be in the offing as ex-governors in the Senate are said to have concluded arrangements to challenge the court order on the refund of pensions received by them.

The ex-governors, who appeared to be jittery over the court order, are said to be determined to overturn the order.

One of the ex-governors, who volunteered to speak on the matter on condition of anonymity, told our reporters that the last had not been heard on the matter.

He insisted that it seemed that there is more to the court order than meet the eye.
He wondered why former governors were being targeted when there are other retired public officers who had served and also received pensions.

A Federal High Court in Lagos had ordered the Federal Government to recover pensions collected by former governors now serving as ministers and members of the National Assembly.

The court also directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, to challenge the legality of states’ pension laws permitting former governors and other ex-public officials to collect such pensions.

The ex-governor said: “Nobody really wants to talk about the court order on retrieval of paid pensions.

“There is certainly more to it. Why are we being targeted? There are retired military officers and other public servants who were in government and also received pensions. Why is it being made to look as if we paid ourselves?

“Some of us have made up our minds to explore further legal alternative to challenge the order. It can’t be left unchallenged because we did not pay ourselves.

He continued: “The law that grants us pensions as ex-governors is a valid law of the states. The law, as far as I am concerned, subsists. Nobody has challenged the law in any state and it would be against the constitution for the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice or any other person for that matter to attempt to tamper or reverse a state law without due process.

“Are we no longer operating a federal system of government?” he asked.

“The constitution has granted the three tiers of government their specific roles. The AGF cannot afford to breach that section of the grund norm that grants the State Assembly power to make laws for the state, court order or no court order.

“I think the judgment of the Federal High Court did not take into consideration the fact that the order would violate the principle of federalism as enshrined in the constitution.

“We are waiting for the AGF to ask for the refund as directed. We shall ask the AGF to also go and collect what ex-members of the armed forces, police and paramilitary agencies who served in public offices after retirement have collected as pensions.”

It could be recalled that Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court in Lagos made the order following an application by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

According to the SERAP in its letter to the AGF Malami, “those who reportedly receive double emoluments and large severance benefits from their states include: Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano); Kabiru Gaya (Kano); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Theodore Orji (Abia); Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa); Sam Egwu (Ebonyi); Shaaba Lafiagi (Kwara); Joshua Dariye (Plateau) and Jonah Jang (Plateau).

“Others include: Ahmed Sani Yerima (Zamfara); Danjuma Goje (Gombe); Bukar Abba Ibrahim (Yobe); Adamu Aliero (Kebbi); George Akume (Benue); and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers).”

However, while Kwankwaso, Lafiaji, Jang, Yerima, Bukar and Dariye are no more in the Senate, Akpabio, Akume and Amaechi (former Speaker and ex-Governor of Rivers State) are serving ministers.

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Just imagine this mess of a system. Ure in senate with jombo pay, ure still fighting for pension as an ex governor which probably will be in tens of millions. Majority of ur constituents are leaving in abject poverty yet u pay blind eyes and deaf ears to them.. God, purge us of these people.. Let's posterity judge u people.. Nigeria is in a fat big mess

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“ We are waiting for the AGF to ask for the refund as directed. We shall ask the AGF to also go and collect what ex-members of the armed forces, police and paramilitary agencies who served in public offices after retirement have collected as pensions.”

On this, the public should definitely expect the battle to be fought ad WE , it won't matter political party, tribe or religion.... The common denominator is economics & self preservation, it's WE.... Nothing else matters ...

One day, people will wake up to realise it's WE too on this side Vs THEM on the other side.


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Imagine these basta*d ex-governors comparing themselves to civil servants and retired military officers that spent decades serving the country to legitimize their entitlement to pension.
And majority of them didn't even serve their states, the states served them.
However, since there was an existing law which backed up the pension they received which we know they themselves engineered before leaving office. I don't think it will not be right to ask them to refund it now that the law has been revoked.

Dx people seff.... Broad daylight thieves

Imagine fighting for greed!
Receiving salary from Federal government and state government despite the funds they stole underground during there tenure.
Nigeria is in mess with so called greedy politicians.

Military service is a long term service and deserves pension. But you can't use a four year or eight year term and earn pensions in humongous amounts for life, even when you are still another public servant. This is stealing in broad daylight

legal fraudsters. The state should not pay these crooks. political offices are not civil service jobs. Once you leave office, go and start business or eat from your investments

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Shameless thieves wanting to keep their loot! So conscienceless and brazen! They epitomise the housefly who stubbornly insists on going down six feet with a corpse only to be buried with same on a journey of no return! Their eyes will open shortly when the people on their own rise up against their profligacy.

They are greedy fools...

They are always concerned about their pockets

Dem no well at all!

What ?. The love of materialism has made us all turned to vampires of wealth. Even as multi Millionaires / Billionaires we still crave for more wealth at the expense of our immediate family members, society and mankind, by ignoring their little wants for our insidious cycle of show off's & pomposity.

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Military service is a long term service and deserves pension. But you can't use a four year or eight year term and earn pensions in humongous amounts for life, even when you are still another public servant. This is stealing in broad daylight

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Shameless crooked criminals calling themselves ex-governor who want to continue living fraudulently @ the expense of their resource-limited states

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Hmmmmm.. this is greed of the highest order.


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Thieves!!! You are serving in the Senate and still want to be collecting pension as an ex governor