December 27, 2007
The removal of Malam Nuhu Ribadu as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is final, so says government officials who spoke with P.M.News this morning. Close aides of President Umar Yar’Adua confirmed to P.M.News that there is no going back on the deployment of Ribadu to Kuru, Jos to attend a course at the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). The course starts next January.
The directive ordering Ribadu, who was promoted an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) by the Olusegun Obasanjo government, to go for a year course at NIPSS, is seen as the final victory of the hawks in the Yar’Adua administration who want to do away with every vestige of the last administration of which Ribadu is seen as the last man standing.
Yar’Adua’s aides, who spoke with P.M.News this morning, accused Ribadu of disloyalty to the current administration.
They also accused him of deliberately casting the government in bad light in the media, thereby heating up the polity.
Ribadu was also accused of being loyal to Obasanjo and taking orders from him long after the former president left office.
Particularly, a top aide of Yar’Adua accused Ribadu of being excessively loyal to Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the defeated All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) presidential candidate and of deliberately trying to embarrass the government at a time when the administration was trying to validate its electoral victory at the tribunal.
The aide disclosed that a former member of the House of Representatives and ANPP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa State, Alhaji Farouk Adamu Aliu, a bosom friend of Ribadu, was the one coordinating the meeting between Ribadu and top politicians, thereby leading to selective application of the law.
It was also discovered that Dr. Mahmud Tukur, who is believed to be Buhari’s best friend, is married to Ribadu’s sister.
Investigations revealed that the government has established that Ribadu was trying to embarrass the Yar’Adua government when he named the new EFCC headquarters in Abuja after the late General Tunde Idiagbon, second in command to Buhari during Buhari’s military administration.
P.M.News gathered that the major undoing of Ribadu is undue closeness to Buhari, who is doing everything possible to oust the present government.
To further underscore Ribadu’s partiality in the war against corruption in the country, Yar Adua’s aides pointed out that a clear case of corruption has been established against the former governor of Bauchi State, Adamu Muazu, but Ribadu refused to move against him simply because he was his friend.
The directive ordering Ribadu, who was promoted an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) by the Olusegun Obasanjo government, to go for a year course at NIPSS, is seen as the final victory of the hawks in the Yar’Adua administration who want to do away with every vestige of the last administration of which Ribadu is seen as the last man standing.
Yar’Adua’s aides, who spoke with P.M.News this morning, accused Ribadu of disloyalty to the current administration.
They also accused him of deliberately casting the government in bad light in the media, thereby heating up the polity.
Ribadu was also accused of being loyal to Obasanjo and taking orders from him long after the former president left office.
Particularly, a top aide of Yar’Adua accused Ribadu of being excessively loyal to Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the defeated All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) presidential candidate and of deliberately trying to embarrass the government at a time when the administration was trying to validate its electoral victory at the tribunal.
The aide disclosed that a former member of the House of Representatives and ANPP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa State, Alhaji Farouk Adamu Aliu, a bosom friend of Ribadu, was the one coordinating the meeting between Ribadu and top politicians, thereby leading to selective application of the law.
It was also discovered that Dr. Mahmud Tukur, who is believed to be Buhari’s best friend, is married to Ribadu’s sister.
Investigations revealed that the government has established that Ribadu was trying to embarrass the Yar’Adua government when he named the new EFCC headquarters in Abuja after the late General Tunde Idiagbon, second in command to Buhari during Buhari’s military administration.
P.M.News gathered that the major undoing of Ribadu is undue closeness to Buhari, who is doing everything possible to oust the present government.
To further underscore Ribadu’s partiality in the war against corruption in the country, Yar Adua’s aides pointed out that a clear case of corruption has been established against the former governor of Bauchi State, Adamu Muazu, but Ribadu refused to move against him simply because he was his friend.
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