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| Abdulrasheed Maina |
The ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have described President Muhammadu Buhari’s allegations as untrue that some influential government officials loyal to the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan were responsible for the reinstatement of Maina into the service.
They wondered whether those who wrote letters to Maina, asking him to resume work at the Ministry of Interior were appointed by the former president or the PDP.
Jonathan, who spoke though his media aide, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, said the claim by the Presidency was 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.”
The PDP, in its reaction, asked Nigerians to continue to ignore the government, saying it had lost its bearing.
Spokesperson for the party, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, told our correspondent on the telephone that the President should be bold to sack the entire work force.
Adeyeye said, “Who takes decisions for government? Is it civil servants or the government itself? This is government of liars. This administration has lost focus.
“For how long will this government continue to lie and show its incapability? Are the AGF and others loyalists of Jonathan? If you talk of civil service, Jonathan inherited the civil service. Civil service serves every government that comes into power.
“Maybe Buhari should sack all of them. It is shameful. This government brought in Maina secretly and reinstated him thinking that Nigerians won’t know.
“It is very shameful on Buhari’s government. Nothing is truthful about this government.”
They wondered whether those who wrote letters to Maina, asking him to resume work at the Ministry of Interior were appointed by the former president or the PDP.
Jonathan, who spoke though his media aide, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, said the claim by the Presidency was 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.”
The PDP, in its reaction, asked Nigerians to continue to ignore the government, saying it had lost its bearing.
Spokesperson for the party, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, told our correspondent on the telephone that the President should be bold to sack the entire work force.
Adeyeye said, “Who takes decisions for government? Is it civil servants or the government itself? This is government of liars. This administration has lost focus.
“For how long will this government continue to lie and show its incapability? Are the AGF and others loyalists of Jonathan? If you talk of civil service, Jonathan inherited the civil service. Civil service serves every government that comes into power.
“Maybe Buhari should sack all of them. It is shameful. This government brought in Maina secretly and reinstated him thinking that Nigerians won’t know.
“It is very shameful on Buhari’s government. Nothing is truthful about this government.”
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