I didn’t receive any money from Maina — Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he did not receive
any money from the controversial pension fund.

He said there was no iota of truth in reports that he was paid
N5b monthly from the money.

His media adviser, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, gave the explanation in
Abuja on Saturday while reacting to a statement credited to the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,
Abubakar Malami (SAN), published in a national newspaper last
week.

The chief legal officer of the federation was said to have told
a Senate ad-hoc committee that an “ex-president was taking N5bn
monthly from the Pension Fund.”

Eze dismissed the claim as “a blatant lie hurriedly cooked up to
divert the attention of the general public from the raging
‘Mainagate’ and other embarrassing scandals.”

He added, “We believe that the story was concocted as part of
the unfolding grand design (by the Buhari administration) to always
dodge responsibility and blame every evil act taking place in the
present dispensation on the past (Jonathan) administration.

“In the first place, we do not believe that Malami made such a
claim because he is in a position to know that it is simply not
true.”

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he did not receive
any money from the controversial pension fund.

He said there was no iota of truth in reports that he was paid
N5b monthly from the money.

His media adviser, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, gave the explanation in
Abuja on Saturday while reacting to a statement credited to the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,
Abubakar Malami (SAN), published in a national newspaper last
week.

The chief legal officer of the federation was said to have told
a Senate ad-hoc committee that an “ex-president was taking N5bn
monthly from the Pension Fund.”

Eze dismissed the claim as “a blatant lie hurriedly cooked up to
divert the attention of the general public from the raging
‘Mainagate’ and other embarrassing scandals.”

He added, “We believe that the story was concocted as part of
the unfolding grand design (by the Buhari administration) to always
dodge responsibility and blame every evil act taking place in the
present dispensation on the past (Jonathan) administration.

“In the first place, we do not believe that Malami made such a
claim because he is in a position to know that it is simply not
true.”