{"id":30268,"date":"2014-08-17T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30268"},"modified":"2014-08-17T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T13:29:29","slug":"ribadu-dumped-apc-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ribadu-dumped-apc-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ribadu dumped the APC for PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2829\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Fo<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2830\" style=\"color: #171717;\">rmer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, decided to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he felt like an \u201corphan\u201d in the All Progressives Congress (APC), confidants of the retired police officer have said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2933\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2932\" style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2828\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2827\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2826\" style=\"color: #171717;\">. The former anti-graft czar complained to friends privately that the impeachment of Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor had effectively destroyed Adamawa APC as all key politicians had defected to PDP, leaving Ribadu and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the only big names in the opposition party.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2738\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2737\" style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0\u201cEarlier, Ribadu had been advised by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande to go for governorship in Adamawa \u2500 a clear message that he should not give the presidential ticket a shot again,\u201d a Ribadu associate told The Cable<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2825\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">. This, the source said, was a clear pointer to the fact that Ribadu was no longer \u201chighly regarded by the APC hierarchy at the national level\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2801\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2824\" style=\"color: #171717;\">At the state level, Ribadu had never been comfortable being in the same party with Atiku, whom he indicted on corruption charges in 2006 when he was EFCC chairman and Atiku was vice-president to President Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2941\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">The courts later cleared Atiku of any wrongdoing. \u201cIf Ribadu\u00a0decided to stay back in APC, it would be difficult for him to work with Atiku whose political calculations no one can ever be certain about,\u201d the source added, revealing that Ribadu worked \u201cday and night\u201d to help Nyako escape impeachment while Atiku \u201cdid not lift a finger until it was too late\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408281778742_2942\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0Ribadu surprised many political analysts in 2010 when he joined the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN, now part of APC) to contest for the 2011 presidential election against President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">However, he only won in Osun State out of the states under the control of ACN in what many alleged was a betrayal by the ACN leaders who were said to have struck a secret deal with Jonathan before the poll. \u201cNuhu took it on his chin then, hoping that 2011 was a good introduction to politics for him<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">. But recent events in APC have demonstrated to him that he is no longer wanted in the party,\u201d the associate said. There are also bigger calculations about 2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">Courtesy The Cable\u200e.ng<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, decided to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he felt like an \u201corphan\u201d in the All&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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