Credit: The Nation
FORMER
President Goodluck Jonathan has denied ever receiving any money from the
controversial Pension Fund. Media adviser to the former president, Mr.
Ikechukwu Eze dissociated the former President from allegations which accused
an ‘Ex-President’ of being paid N5 billion monthly from the Pension Fund.
The
claim credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of
Justice, Abubakar Malami, had alleged that the chief legal officer to the
federation had told a Senate ad-hoc committee that an “Ex-President was taking
N5 billion monthly from the Pension Fund.”
In
debunking the claim, Eze dismissed it as “a blatant lie hurriedly cooked up to
divert the attention of the general public from the raging ‘Mainagate’ and
other embarrassing scandals.”
According
to Eze, “we believe that the story was concocted as part of the unfolding grand
design to always dodge responsibility and blame every evil act taking place in
the present dispensation on the past Jonathan administration.”
