The former president, Goodluck Jonathan has denied claims that his loyalists are responsible for Maina’s reinstatement.
Earlier, Garba Shehu, presidential aide accused Jonathan’s loyal officials of orchestrated the reinstatement of Maina.
The former president, who spoke through his media, Ikechukwu Eze, described the claim as ridiculous.
He said,
“It is ridiculous to say that Jonathan’s loyalists brought Maina back into service. Is it his loyalists that are in government? Somebody who has left office over two years, his loyalists still brought in a fugitive to power? It is laughable.
“Is it his loyalists that also promoted him and made him an acting director from the position of an assistant director? These are the questions they should answer.
“It is funny. It doesn’t make any sense. Is it Jonathan’s men that reinstated him into office, wrote a letter to him and asked him to return to work?
“This was a fugitive that ran away from Jonathan’s government and it was Jonathan’s men who also put him in office? Someone who ran from the law? It doesn’t make sense.”
Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, was placed under investigation for suspected fraudulent activities, sacked and then reinstated after the court found no evidence of the charges against him.
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