Nuhu Ribadu Formally Returns To APC

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, on Friday returned to the All Progressives Congress. Mr....

A former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, on
Friday returned to the All Progressives Congress.
Mr. Ribadu said in a statement he posted on his
Facebook page that he rejoined the party online
on Friday, and then hosted officials of the party
from his Bako Ward in Yola South Local
Government Area of Adamawa State.
Then on Friday, he visited the Yola South
secretariat of the APC to present himself to the
party.
He had left the party for the Peoples Democratic
Party in 2014.
Mr. Ribadu, a former presidential candidate of
the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria,
explained that his return to the APC was
triggered by his belief that all politics were local
and that almost everyone around him who
started politics with him believed the time had
come for them to make sacrifices and
concession.
He said, “My decision to return to the APC was
triggered by my belief 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. The intractable
crises in the PDP also made it impossible for one
to contribute to the necessary task of building a
viable opposition platform for our country.
“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 APC in 2014
owing to fundamental disagreements with the
ways the chapter of the party in my state was
run after it fell into some hands.”
PREMIUM TIMES had reported on Tuesday that
the Adamawa State chapter of the APC was
wooing Mr. Ribadu back.
The former EFCC boss is one of the founding
leaders of the party, but defected to the PDP in
2014, a few months to the 2015 general
elections.
He left the APC after the impeachment of former
Governor Murtala Nyako by the State House of

Assembly in 2014.