The Maina matter provoked the spat between the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita and Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. Although details of what the President discussed with the minister remain shrouded in secrecy, sources told Vanguard, yesterday, that the President was obviously not happy about what transpired before he arrived the Council Chambers venue of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The source said the President was already addressing issues of the verbal exchange between the HoS and Chief of Staff. Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said in an interview on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, yesterday, that President Buhari never summoned the Chief of Staff and HoS, over the spat they had at FEC meeting. Recall that the HoS had said in a leaked letter that the President was aware of the reinstatement of the former chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina and that she warned against it. It would be recalled also that the Chief of Staff had, at the FEC meeting threatened to query the HoS and that she must attach to her reply, photographic evidence of her visit to the President, a declaration that was said to have infuriated the HoS who took the matter to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, for intervention. The Minister of Interior Affairs, Abdulrahman Dambazau, had blamed Mr. Maina’s recall on the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, HoS, and the Federal Civil Service Commission, while the HoS accused the Interior Minister of lying against her, following his earlier claim that her office posted Maina to his ministry as a director.]]>

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