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The Cable newspaper has a story stating that Ribadu defected from APC to PDP because he was feeling like an 'orphan' in APC.
The report reads: "The former anti-graft czar complained to friends privately that the impeachment of Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor had effectively destroyed Adamawa APC as all key politicians had defected to PDP, leaving Ribadu and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the only big names in the opposition party.
“Earlier, Ribadu had been advised by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande to go for governorship in Adamawa ─ a clear message that he should not give the presidential ticket a shot again,” a Ribadu associate told The Cable. This, the source said, was a clear pointer to the fact that Ribadu was no longer “highly regarded by the APC hierarchy at the national level”.
At the state level, Ribadu had never been comfortable being in the same party with Atiku, whom he indicted on corruption charges in 2006 when he was EFCC chairman and Atiku was vice-president to President Olusegun Obasanjo. The courts later cleared Atiku of any wrongdoing.
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Source: #TheCable
The report reads: "The former anti-graft czar complained to friends privately that the impeachment of Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor had effectively destroyed Adamawa APC as all key politicians had defected to PDP, leaving Ribadu and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the only big names in the opposition party.
“Earlier, Ribadu had been advised by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande to go for governorship in Adamawa ─ a clear message that he should not give the presidential ticket a shot again,” a Ribadu associate told The Cable. This, the source said, was a clear pointer to the fact that Ribadu was no longer “highly regarded by the APC hierarchy at the national level”.
At the state level, Ribadu had never been comfortable being in the same party with Atiku, whom he indicted on corruption charges in 2006 when he was EFCC chairman and Atiku was vice-president to President Olusegun Obasanjo. The courts later cleared Atiku of any wrongdoing.
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Source: #TheCable
