ADAMAWA GUBER: Ribadu fails to register in PDP, beats a hasty retreat
By Bankole Jamgbadi on August 15, 2014@todayngr

Contrary to reports that Malam Nuhu Ribadu, a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was on the verge of joining the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the former anti-graft czar has said that he remained a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said this amid unconfirmed reports that an automatic waiver was already awaiting him in the event that he defects to the PDP. A section of the media had reported that he was billed to register for the PDP in his home state, Adamawa, yesterday, in preparation for his eventual indication of interest in the governorship race on the platform of the party.

The by-election holds in October this year to fill the vacancy created by the impeachment of ex-governor Murtala Nyako. According to a source, who spoke with Leadership, the failure of Ribadu to register as a PDP member had a lot to do with the inability of the tripartite parties, that is, Ribadu, the Presidency and the top echelon of the PDP, to firm up an arrangements intended to smoothen things for him to pick the party’s governorship ticket on a platter. It was also gathered that Ribadu developed cold feet when it became obvious that while the Presidency was ready to grant him an automatic waiver, some powerful power blocs within the party insisted he must go through the party primary like others. This, according to sources, was seen by Ribadu as a means of taking him out of the APC only to rubbish in the PDP. Efforts to reach Ribadu were not fruitful as his three lines were switched off when LEADESHIP Friday called at 8:15pm . But his media aide, Abdulaziz Fagge, said his principal was not in Adamawa to register as a member of the PDP.

“As I am talking to you, Malam Nuhu Ribadu is in Abuja; he is not in Adamawa as being speculated”, Fagge said. In his reaction, the Adamawa State chairman of the PDP, Chief Joel Madaki, said he unaware that Ribadu was coming to the state to register as a member of the party. “The truth is that we want people in our party; everybody is welcome, we do not discriminate at all. But on this particular matter, I am not aware that Ribadu is coming to register as a member of our party. “But please, I must remind you, and quote me please, that you join a party and then you aspire to a position; you don’t aspire to a position before you join a party,” Madaki said.

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lakpalakpa: Ribadu should join PDP and I promised he will receive the Soludo treatment.

I wonder if he has forgotten how Jona-daft and his goons rubbish the good work of the committee he was part of about two years ago..

soroptimist: APC shouldn't hand him the Guber ticket either!

This is a man that should be learning under GMB peradventure the Honest one can deliver the depth of his political clout and long staying power to him but it seems his prevarication has gotten a better part of him

Let him go to PDP even if it is to contest for a councillorship post

Sibrah: This our President always playing state politic when he should be tackling more serious issues. . . . Ah Ah, there is God oh!!!

barcanista: What happened to Ribadu will happen to Jimi Agbaje in Lagos. He won't fly PDP ticket as the vultures wl kick him out in d primaries, destroy his reputation and dump him.

Sibrah: This our President always playing state politic when he should be tackling more serious issues. . . . Ah Ah, there is God oh!!!

barcanista: What happened to Ribadu will happen to Jimi Agbaje in Lagos. He won't fly PDP ticket as the vultures wl kick him out in d primaries, destroy his reputation and dump him.

asadike: ur dp na wao. Chai

barcanista: u av a mail and na wetin do my dp?

Descartes:
Hello barcanista,
Longest time,
Ribadu has been used as a pawn on Adamawa's Political chessboard.
Sure you still remember my comment few weeks ago when it was alleged he wanted to join PDP?
But some people did not subscribe to my position on that issue that very day

asadike: Notin o. Oya, wetin do my own?

omenka: Lucky he didn't test the depth of the waters with both feet!! Gentleman would've been drowning right now.

Politics in this country is so full of neck breaking intrigues! You need to be ten plots ahead in the movie otherwise you miss your role and get thrown out of set!!

Still a fan of the gentleman any day.

asadike: Notin o. Oya, wetin do my own?