A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the
opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined
the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].
Mr. Ribadu was the presidential candidate of the defunct
Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in 2011 and until his
defection today considered one of the presidential
prospects of the APC in the 2015 presidential election.
A member of the executive committee of the PDP in Bako,
Mr. Ribadu’s ward in Yola South Local Government Area
of Adamawa state, told PREMIUM TIMES that the anti-
corruption chief has been registered as a member of the
party and given a party membership card.
The source asked not to be named because he was not
authorised to disclose the development to journalists.
A PREMIUM TIMES report had detailed how the PDP
leadership led by the party’s national chairman, Adamu
Muazu, mounted pressure on Mr. Ribadu to join the party
and be its candidate for the October 11 governorship
election in Adamawa.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
has already released a timetable for an election being
organised to replace former Governor Murtala Nyako who
was impeached by the State Assembly last month.
Already, Acting Governor Umaru Fintiri and Awwal Tukur,
a son of former chairman of the PDP, Bamanga Tukur, have
picked the notice of intent form to seek the PDP
governorship nomination for the election. A former
military administrator of Lagos state, Buba Marwa, has
also indicated interest in running.
Efforts to speak with Mr. Ribadu or his spokesperson,
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, were unsuccessful. Both men’s
mobile telephones phones were switched off when
PREMIUM TIMES tried to reach them.
Mr. Ribadu is yet to publicly declare for the PDP although
he has not refuted any of the reports linking him to the
party.
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