Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied ever receiving any money from the controversial Pension Fund.
Jonathan made the denial in a statement by his Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze.
Jonathan had been accused of receiving N5 billion monthly from the pension fund.
The claim was credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
Malami was said to have leveled the allegation before Senate ad-hoc committee probing the reinstatement and promotion of the embattled Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina.
But Eze 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 said: “We believe that the story was concocted as part of the unfolding grand design to always dodge responsibility and blame every evil act taking place in the present dispensation on the past Jonathan administration.”
