The former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, on Friday announced his
defection to the All Progressives Congress. Ribadu, who made the announcement on his
Facebook page, said he made the decision to honour people who had called
on him to return to the APC, “a party of which I was a founding
member.”
Ribadu, a former presidential candidate
of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, had in 2014 left the party
for the Peoples Democratic Party.
He said his decision to return to the APC was triggered by his belief that all politics were local.
He said, “I re-registered as a member of
the APC on Thursday (July 21, 2016) through the party’s online portal.
After that, the leadership of the party in my Bako ward of Yola South
Local Government Area visited me in my Yola residence to welcome me back
to their fold.
“My decision to return to the APC was
triggered by my believe that all politics are local. Almost everyone
around me, and with whom we started my political journey, believed the
time had come for us to make sacrifices and make concessions. That is in
addition to the unbelievable love that my friends in the APC have
showered on me in the past months. They demonstrated in words and action
that they wanted me back home.
“I also did a deep and long reassessment
of the circumstances that warranted my exit from the APC in the first
place. I left the party in 2014, owing to fundamental disagreements with
the ways the chapter in my state was run after it fell into some hands.
“Some colleagues and I tried hard to save
the then-APC administration from an orchestrated impeachment plot which
was unfortunately carried out with active collaboration of some ranking
APC members in the state.”
However, Ribadu said events in the last
15 months had addressed many of the issues which made him leave the
party in the first instance.
“More so, with the genuine and sincere
invitations I received since last year to retrace my steps into the
party, I decided to return after consulting family and political
associates at all levels,” he said.
Meanwhile the National Vice Chairman
(South South) of the All Progressives Congress, Hilliard Eta, has
welcomed Ribadu’s decision, whom he said has returned “home.”
The party leader said, “All I can say for
now is that, we welcome Ribadu back home. He had no reason to have left
in the first place.”
Nuhu Ribadu dumps PDP for APC
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