Abdulrasheed Maina:

The family of Abdulrasheed Maina, the embattled former boss of Presidential TaskForce on Pension Fund on Thursday warned that their son should be allowed to concentrate on the job of recovering stolen funds for the Federal Government and not dragged into 2019 politics.

The family was reacting to speculations that Maina was planning to contest for the governorship of Borno State in the 2019 general elections.

“It has become imperative to also warn politicians and their cronies who may want to use the opportunity to distract Maina to desist from doing so as the family would seek redress where applicable. We have taken his ordeal as an act of God and any attempt to drag his name in the mud for personal reasons, or to settle political scores with people will totally be rejected and confronted.

“This is not the right time for political engagement, we urge all the good citizens of Borno State pressurizing him to contest the Governorship of the state to exercise some patience and allow him to heal from the wounds inflicted on him by the last administration, it is on record that the government abandoned him when the political interests of their friends eventually clashed with the duties which he was commissioned to deliver,” the royal family said in a statement signed by Hauwa and Aliyu Maina .

The statement family reads in part: “We owe our gratitude to God the Almighty. We want to send our special appreciation to our amiable President and Father, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari for following due process in the reinstatement of our son.

AbdulRasheed Maina is well known to all Nigerians for being patriotic, and fearless in the recovery of funds stolen by thieves in the pension industry, working always hard to ensure that he gives maximum service to the country in all his dealings as a civil servant.

“It is unfortunate that former President Goodluck Jonathan who found Maina worthy of the assignment after perusing his antecedents and credentials, to lead the Presidential Task Force on Pension Fund, couldn’t protect him after the Pension fraud cabal went for Maina’s jugular, just to punish him for exposing their dubuous and reckless stealing and for saving the country of large sums of money that were hitherto stolen by a few.

“We are however grateful to God that despite all the trials and tribulations that our son went through in this dark period, God still kept him strong and healthy to the point that he is able to resume work.

“The President who in his fair and transparent nature, saw the need to ensure that justice is a actually seen to be done at the end of the day. ”

“It has become imperative to also warn politicians and their cronies who may want to use the opportunity to distract Maina to desist from doing so as the family would seek redress where applicable. We have taken his ordeal as an act of God and any attempt to drag his name in the mud for personal reasons, or to settle political scores with people will totally be rejected and confronted.

“This is not the right time for political engagement, we urge all the good citizens of Borno State pressurizing him to contest the Governorship of the state to exercise some patience and allow him to heal from the wounds inflicted on him by the last administration, it is on record that the government abandoned him when the political interests of their friends eventually clashed with the duties which he was commissioned to deliver.

“We are Muslims and believe that the Almighty God in his wisdom has taken Maina through this phase of life as part of the journey to greater assignments and service to the nation. To that end, we, as a Family have forgiven his traducers and urge everyone to join hands with him as he resumes work to continue with high level Fund RECOVERY and blocking leakages in the system, this he knows best. He should at least be allowed to further contribute his quota to the Buhari Administrations corruption fight as he demonstrated during the last Administration.

“We are therefore unequivocal in our demand that Maina should be left alone, excused from every political imagination of any member of the public so as to be able to concentrate more on his duties as his inputs to the system have greatly been missed.”