Maina Is A Fugitive, Arrest Him Now – DPP Tells Buhari

The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), on Thursday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately arrest and prosecute the embattled former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

The National Chairman of DPP, Garshon Benson gave the advice at the National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting of the party in Abuja.

While describing Maina as a fugitive, the party said due process should be followed in handling his case.

He said: “Maina can be described as fugitive. If the Head of Service said she doesn’t know anything about his reinstatement and suddenly now they said that there is a court order that the man should be arrested.

“Our view is that our country has not done well, how did it come into the country? What process was he reinstated? These are issues we need to know.

“Maina should be made to face the law. Out law said you are presumed innocent until you are convicted. Government should make efforts to arrest him and properly try him. Let him state his own side of the story.

“If the court says all what everybody is saying now that he did not do it well, but if the court has an overwhelming evidence base on the fact before it then it is better. We thank God for the health of President Muhammadu Buhari that he has resumed duty fully. Anybody can be sick. We thank God that Buhari has been gotten that grace from God to get over the sickness.

“We want government to consult wisely on the up coming cabinet shakeup in appointing people. Buhari told the world that he is a president for all Nigerians, so we want an all inclusive government that would draw Nigerian out of the present political situation.

“More technocrats should be brought into government; we are looking at managing Nigeria resources for Nigerians so that the economy can improve.”