The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has joined the race of groups and individuals calling on a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, to return to the party.

Mr. Ribadu is one of the founding leaders of the party, but left for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, shortly before the 2015 general elections.

Mr. Ribadu was the PDP candidate for governor in Adamawa State in 2015. He left the APC after the impeachment of former Governor Murtala Nyako by the State House of Assembly in 2014.
Sources close to the anti-corruption Czar said he was ” deeply disappointed by the inability of the APC leadership to save Mr Nyako from impeachment.”

In a letter to Mr. Ribadu, signed by the acting secretary of the APC in Adamawa State, Saidu Naira, the ruling party said it was time for Mr. Ribadu to return to his “home party”.

The letter, dated, June, 22, 2016, reads in part:
“Given your track records and progressives nature, we strongly belief APC is where you belong to.
“We are also mindful of the efforts and contributions you made during the merger without which the merger would have been difficult.

“To this end we reaffirm our request for you to come home to APC and assist and contribute to the success of the APC government both at state and national level”.

Efforts to reach Mr. Ribadu or his spokesperson, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, were unsuccessful.
PREMIUM TIMES however gathered that the request from the APC is coming at a time the former presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria is under pressure from his present party, the PDP, to serve as national chairman to ” reorganise the PDP as it readies itself to reclaim power in 2019″.

raumdeuter:
Ribadu just embarassed himself with the ill advised move of decamping to PDP

He should have been one of the rising star of APC now given he was the ACN presidential candidate in 2011

But he was fooled by the Retardeen Jonathan PDP money and he now has to go join the queue from the back

Jorussia:
As an unrepentant APC supporter, i don't see anything cheering about Ribadu's return to APC.I ceased to respect him,the day he moved to PDP.I held nuhu ribadu in high esteem,until he showed himself to be a greedy politician.In 2011 presidential election,i was the only person that voted for ribadu out of about 600 voters in my voting center.The governor (oshiomhole) gave an instruction to all ACN leaders in the state to mobilise their supporters for GEJ,i was the only ACN member that went against the governor's directive voting center. I respect buhari and tinubu for being a different breed of Nigerian politician

To those of you who'd kill yourselves coz of politicians, have you seen your lives outside?
NO PERMANENT FRIENDS OR FOES IN POLITICS, only INTERESTS REMAINS PERMANENT [/color] [/b]

StOla:


I believe Ribadu's reason for leaving was because Murtala Nyako of PDP was admitted into the APC and given the state party structure on a platter.

I am still disappointed that he had to decamp to a useless and criminal party like the PDP, but equally disappointed that the APC was to eager to accept anyone from the PDP and handed the party structure of their state. Like Saraki, like Dino, like Umana Umana, like Timipre Sylva.