By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado-Ekiti—Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has challenged the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, to reveal the thieves he alleged were in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government and answer the corruption allegations against him, as well as his fraudulent reinstatement.

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Governor Fayose described Maina’s interview on a national television yesterday as explosive, saying he was sure that President Buhari will look the other way as he did on the allegation of award of $25 billion contracts without following due process made against the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru by Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu and many others.

In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor 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 challenge is another opportunity for President Buhari to prove 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 escape 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.”