Maina's recall was a grand conspiracy against Buhari - Jiti Ogunye

- A legal practitioner, Jiti Ogunye, has described the recall and reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina into the civil service, as a grand conspiracy against the Buhari-led government

- Ogunye descrbed the embattled former pension boss as a ‘scofflaw’, and stated that it was obvious that the president was not aware of what was happening behind him

- The legal practitioner further chided the minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, for endorsing Maina’s reinstatement into the civil service after the EFCC had issued a warrant for his arrest

The reported recall and reinstatement of the embattled former chairman of the presidential task force on pension reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been described as a grand conspiracy against the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, by a legal practitioner, Jiti Ogunye.

Ogunye made his comments during an interview session on a Channels TV programme, Politics Today.

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Legit.ng gathers that Ogunye stated that President Buhari was unaware of what was going on behind him.

He stated: “We are dealing with a grand conspiracy against the people of Nigeria, the Nigerian state and from what we can see, the President himself.

“By the president’s action, it is obvious that he didn’t know what was happening behind him.

"Maina has been a fugitive from justice, and is a scofflaw. He is a scofflaw in the sense that he has defiled the Nigerian state; he has defiled every institution.

“He has defiled the serving Senate, the EFCC which is in the executive branch of government, he defiled the court.

"A man who is a scofflaw, who is a fugitive, who ran away from a criminal justice process, cannot be found guilty in absentia.”

The lawyer further accused the minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, of triggering the entire controversy by endorsing Maina’s reinstatement into the civil service after the EFCC had issued a warrant for his arrest.

In his words: “The Senate asked him to come, he refused to come. He went to court via a fundamental rights enforcement procedure application to injunct the Senate.

“Now by 2015, he had been charged to court by the EFCC and he was supposed to be in court.

“He was declared wanted because there was an order for his arrest, a warrant of arrest.

“What has happened is that by deception, that order (warrant) for his arrest was vacated by a Magistrate court and the Attorney-General who triggered this whole thing.

“And that is why Chief Obono-Obla was speaking tongue in cheek because it was his principal, the person he is working with, that triggered off the whole thing.

So, the AG then wrote a memo to the Federal Civil Service Commission stating that since that warrant had been vacated, he should be reinstated; whereas, his sack in the first instance was predicated on his abscondment.”

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the embattled Abdulrasheed Maina, denied allegations that he embezzled pension fund.

In a video, Maina claimed he had in his possession, documents that would expose the level of corruption in Nigeria.

The process of sacking Maina from the civil service has not begun despite the order by President Buhari that he be disengaged from the service. It was revealed that it would require strict adherence to civil service rules and procedures in order to avoid its nullification through the judicial process for a person to be disengaged.

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Source: Legit.ng