Politics

Maina campaign posters all over Abuja, others

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9 years ago

October 27, 2017

While still on the fly, ex-Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pensions reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina is heating up Borno, Kaduna, and Abuja with his campaign machine for

the 2019 guber race in Borno.

His posters, describing him as “The Messiah”, are now all over the states, backed by a group called the Borno Stakeholders Forum, and captioned: Hope 2019 and a promise: “Borno Shall be great Again and with Abdulrasheed Maina, Our Future is Guaranteed”.

This is no accident, going by revelation from his family who said he was called back by the present administration to come and work for change.

Aliyu Maina, the spokesperson for the family, said the wanted chairman is a great reformer, as proven by his effort in the pension reform task force he headed then.

“It is on record that Abdulrasheed Maina’s reform put to a stop the fraudulent withdrawals of huge sums from both the Nigerian Pension Board, the Nigerian Police Pension Board,” he said.

Maina is alleged to have mismanaged N100 billion during his so-called reform—for which the Senate probed him, and the EFCC ultimately declared him wanted in 2013.

Aliyu, however, said all that was noble.

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“Perhaps it is this noble effort that made him enviable to the present administration when they came into power to convince him to come back and assist in its ‘change agenda’.”

President Muhammadu has ordered Maina’s disengagement after the news of his re-instatement filtered out, and a new warrant of arrest issued against him locally and internationally.

He is however preparing to turn himself in—a decision many believe will unravel a lot of things.