A prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has described Nuhu Ribadu as not being trustworthy.
In an open letter he addressed to the national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to which Ribadu recently decamped, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, he said the PDP would be making the biggest mistake of its life if it granted a waiver to the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to enable him contest the Adamawa State governorship primaries next week.
He recalled how President Goodluck Jonathan restored Ribadu’s rank of assistant inspector general of police and retired him gracefully after he had been dismissed, an action he said Ribadu refused to be grateful for.
Clark said that Ribadu has on many occasions, embarrassed the President with his actions, adding that bringing Ribadu into the PDP would dent the image of the party and also affect its fortune in Adamawa State, where he said Ribadu has no value, politically.
“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.” [myad]
