Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has debunked a recent report alleging that he collected N5 billion monthly from the
controversial Pension Fund.
Jonathan who made this disclosure through his Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, on Saturday, was reacting to a statement credited to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
Malami had told a Senate Ad-hoc Committee that an “ex-President was taking N5 billion monthly from the Pension Fund.”
Jonathan however, dismissed the claim as “a blatant lie hurriedly cooked up to divert the attention of the general public from the raging ‘Mainagate’ and other embarrassing scandals.”
He added: “We believe that the story was concocted as part of the unfolding grand design (by the Buhari administration), to always dodge responsibility and blame every evil act taking place in the present dispensation on the past (Jonathan) administration.
“In the first place, we do not believe that Malami made such a claim, because he is in a position to know that it is simply not true.”
