The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has joined the race of groups and
individuals calling on a former chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, to return to the party.
Congress (APC) has joined the race of groups and
individuals calling on a former chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, to return to the party.
Mr. Ribadu is one of the founding leaders of the
party, but left for the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, shortly before the 2015 general elections.
Mr. Ribadu was the PDP candidate for governor in
Adamawa State in 2015. He left the APC after the
impeachment of former Governor Murtala Nyako by
the State House of Assembly in 2014.
Sources close to the anti-corruption Czar said he
was ” deeply disappointed by the inability of the
APC leadership to save Mr Nyako from
impeachment.”
In a letter to Mr. Ribadu, signed by the acting
secretary of the APC in Adamawa State, Saidu
Naira, the ruling party said it was time for Mr.
Ribadu to return to his “home party”.
The letter, dated, June, 22, 2016, reads in part:
“Given your track records and progressives nature,
we strongly belief APC is where you belong to.
“We are also mindful of the efforts and
contributions you made during the merger without
which the merger would have been difficult.
“To this end we reaffirm our request for you to
come home to APC and assist and contribute to the
success of the APC government both at state and
national level”.
Efforts to reach Mr. Ribadu or his spokesperson,
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, were unsuccessful.
PREMIUM TIMES however gathered that the request
from the APC is coming at a time the former
presidential candidate of the defunct Action
Congress of Nigeria is under pressure from his
present party, the PDP, to serve as national
chairman to ” reorganise the PDP as it readies itself
to reclaim power in 2019″.
