Maina’s Return, An Embarrassment To Buhari, Our Party – APC

Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA – The ruling All Progressives
Congress APC has asked President
Muhammadu Buhari to not spare
anyone found to have been involved in
facilitating the reinstatement into
service, a fugitive Assistant Director in
the Ministry of Interior, Abdulrasheed
Maina.
Maina
It described the incident as a huge
embarrassment to the Buhari
administration and the ruling party
which rode to power on the mantra of
“change”.
In a formal reaction to the incident, the
party through its National Publicity
Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi told
journalists Tuesday in Abuja that it
would however not dissipate its energy
in replicating the actions of the
president who has already ordered a
probe of the entire scam.
“We are all shocked like any other
person. It is almost unbelievable that
such a thing can happen. However, we
are all delighted that President Buhari
has taken a very decisive punitive action
against those that are involved. We are
also delighted that he has ordered a full
scale investigation into the
circumstances the led to this individual
to be reinstated into public office. We
believe as a party that whoever that was
part of this or found to have been part
of this must face appropriate
consequences because it is an
embarrassment to the party,
government and it is unacceptable”, he
said.
Having failed to act on previous probe
reports regarding activities of the
suspended Secretary to the Government
of the Federation, Babachir Lawal and
Director General of the National
Intelligence Agency NIA, Ayo Oke, the
APC said Nigerians must have faith in
the ability of the president to right by
all.
“I cannot comment on this because it is
the same President that has taken a
decisive action on this that still has the
other reports. In his wisdom, he must
have a reason and unless we know
those reasons, we cannot come to the
conclusion that he has not acted. We
have to be willing to admit that in his
judgement, he does have all the facts
because we are not sitting in that chair.
We have no doubt in our minds that the
President will do what is necessary and
do what is right. But he does not have
to act because everybody wants him to
act. He has to exercise the best
judgement at all time. So, if we are
satisfied that he is acting in the best
interest of the nation, definitely we
cannot continue to insinuate that he will
shield these people. He was the one
who ordered that the investigation be
carried out and he is the one who
ordered that the SGF and NIA boss be
removed from the office and we have
not heard that they have returned to
their duty posts. So, definitely action will
be taken on them. I think we should just
be kind and wait for Mr President to act
on that before we come to the
conclusion that he has not acted”, said
Abdullahi.
He added that the party would not sett
up an independent panel to investigate
the incident.
“Why should the party set up an
independent investigation team as if it
is not our government. There is no need
to set up one because it is our
government. The President as the leader
of the party is not independent of the
party. We are confident that the
President will do what is necessary.”