Dump Ribadu, He Has No Political Value ––Clark Warns PDP Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark, has warned the leadership of the PDP not to grant waiver to a former EFCC boss, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to contest the party’s primary for Adamawa governorship election. Clark, who spoke at his residence in Abuja on Thursday, said Ribadu had no political value and alleged that the enemies of President Goodluck Jonathan were those sponsoring Ribadu in PDP. In an open letter addressed to PDP chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, Clark said: “What, really, is our party receiving so joyfully? What is the political value of this emerging treachery, the well-established bone-marrow trademark of the man, Ribadu? “In 2011 election, Ribadu ran for President on the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, lost at his family home polling booth, and also his ward, scored a mere 32 votes in Yola, and 32,786 total in Adamawa, against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s 344,526 and President Goodluck Jonathan’s 508,314.” Chief Clark said at the end Ribadu would betray Jonathan… The Ijaw leader said when the President saved Ribadu from public disgrace by converting his dismissal to retirement as Assistant Inspector General of police, the former anti-graft boss has refused to show gratitude to Jonathan. Clark said, “Seemingly, not imbued with a spirit of gratitude, Ribadu has, up till this moment, failed to show respect to Mr. President, who magnanimously saved him the odious stigma of the status of ‘dismissed-with-ignomy’ to the honourable one of ‘retirement-with-full-benefits’ “Not only that, Jonathan’s administration dressed him up with a high-profile appointment as chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Committee, against the run of play. “His response? A failed drama of trumped-up indictment of government, the fingers that thought to feed his thinned-out public image, following battering it rightly received during the Yar’Adua administration.” Clark said that even Ribadu’s friends in the ruling party had failed to celebrate his defection from the opposition APC. He alleged that the defection was a script by APC against President Jonathan. He also said the former anti-corruption crusader was known for raising false alarms against governors that were elected on the platform of the PDP in the past while serving as the chairman of the EFCC. He said Ribadu was involved in the impeachment and attempted impeachment of PDP governors in the past. He, therefore, warned the leadership of the party against granting Ribadu any waiver to contest.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:17:52 +0000
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