Did Buhari Sacrifice Maina To Divert Attention From NNPC $25bn Scandal?

Reno Omokri, Former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media has waded into the secret recall of former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina to the public service.

Recall that Maina, who was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, returned to the country and was reinstated into the ministry of Interior and promoted to the level of a director.

Shortly before the Maina saga, the Minister of state for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu had accused the Group Managing Director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, of awarding contract without due process to the tune of $25 billion dollar.

Omokri, in a Facebook post, alleged that the All Progressives Congress led government was using the Maina issue to divert Nigerians from the NNPC scandal.

He accused Buhari of corruption, stating that the president “installed a government of the corrupt, for the corrupt and by the corrupt”.

He said, “Even if President Muhammadu Buhari devalued the Naira, did he also devalue your brain?

“How can you believe that Maina returned, was reinstated and given such a plum position without his say so?

“How can you believe that the EFCC did not know the address of his $2 million house before yesterday?

“The question we should be asking is this: Did the Buhari administration sacrifice Maina to the press and Nigerians to divert attention from the alleged $25 billion scam at NNPC?

“Whatever the answer, we now know that Buhari and the APC just deceived Nigerians and installed a government of the corrupt, for the corrupt and by the corrupt. Curroptocracy!”