Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he did not receive any form of cash from the controversial pension fund. He said there was no iota of truth in reports that he was paid N5b monthly from the money.
His media adviser, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, gave the explanation in Abuja on Saturday while reacting to a statement credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, published in one of the national dailies the previous week.
The chief legal officer of the federation was said to have told a Senate ad - hoc committee that an "ex-president was taking N5bn monthly from the Pension Fund”
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 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's 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.”