Ribadu defends defection to PDP

A previous Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Sunday legitimized his surrender from the opposion All Progressives Congress to the decision Peoples Democratic Party, saying the APC was not superior to the PDP.

Ribadu, who was the 2011 presidential applicant of the old Action Congress of Nigeria, herald of the APC, said there was no distinction between the PDP and APC, regarding the character of the individuals who constituted both gatherings.

The ex-EFFC director, who talked through his representative, Mr. Abdulaziz, said this while fielding inquiries from one of our journalists in Abuja.

He said, "In Nigeria, particularly in legislative issues, you can't say that this is a selective gathering for the individuals who are cheats or this is for good individuals.

"It's much the same as saying that all Yorubas are this or all Igbos are this. In every gathering of individuals, there must be great individuals and there are awful individuals. Obviously, the great may be more than the awful or the terrible may be more than the positive qualities in any gathering.

"At the same time there is no any gathering that is solely for the great individuals or for the awful individuals."

He said that his surrender was not borne out of his urgency to understand his political desire however was focused around his energetic energy to serve the nation and its kin.

Abdulaziz said, "It is not genuine that he (Ribadu) was urgent to understand his political aspiration. This is on account of this choice was taken in the overriding enthusiasm of serving the individuals.

"What matters for him is administration. That is the reason actually when he was a part of the resistance party, when government requested that him serve the nation, he acknowledged the offer and he made a glorious showing that everyone hailed aside from the individuals who don't need change in the framework.

"On the off chance that you are prepared to serve the individuals, in some cases you will need to do something that is not in any case acceptable to yourself."

Anyhow one of Ribadu's nearby political partners in Yola let one know of our reporters that Ribadu's surrender had more to do with his governorship aspiration and the affirmed disappointment of the APC to provide for him the normal help and repay him for his "offerings" for the gathering.

The source said part of Ribadu's tributes, which he said the APC had neglected to respond, was his offer to venture down for the then presidential applicant of the Congress for Progressive Change, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 decision furthermore his part in "charming a few governors to join the APC".

The source interfaced Ribadu's abandonment to his uncertain grievances against the APC, which the source made the ex-presidential applicant to succumb to weight mounted on him by individuals, including the Chairman of the PDP, Adamu Mu'azu; Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and a Principal Secretary in the Presidency, Hassan Tukur, to join the PDP.