A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday said he did not at
anytime aspire to be the Inspector-General of Police.
He condemned an allegation by a former Inspector-General of Police Mike Okiro, that he was desperate to use his position as EFCC chairman to be the nation’s police chief.
Ribadu, who made the clarification in a statement through his spokesman, Mallam Adularia Abdulaziz, insisted that ex-Governor James Ibori was instrumental to Okiro’s appointment as IGP.
He said an influential former governor from North central and a couple of other people helped to facilitate Okiro’s selection by Ibori as IGP.
“Our attention has been drawn to the shameless lies a former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro recklessly spewed to the media yesterday. The cause of Mr. Okiro’s anger, the statement, in a London court, by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu that James Ibori was instrumental to his emergence as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) needs no further equivocation as it was an open secret to everybody in the government circle then.
“If Okiro is now denying this in public, there is no way he can deny this open secret to a number of people including an influential governor from the Northcentral then, and a couple of other people who helped facilitate his selection by Ibori.
“The truth is Nuhu Ribadu’s focus then was consolidating on his modest efforts at the EFCC, especially at a time when he was working on high-profile cases, including that of Okiro’s godfather, James Ibori.
“We therefore challenge Okiro to name those people he called Ribadu’s friends that narrated the fictitious story of Ribadu’s interest in becoming the IGP to him.”
Contrary to Okiro’s claim, Ribadu said he has evidence to show that an assassination attempt was made on his life.
He said: “The highest distortion in Okiro’s statement, however, is his attempt to rewrite the well-known and widely documented assassination attempts on the former EFCC chairman
He condemned an allegation by a former Inspector-General of Police Mike Okiro, that he was desperate to use his position as EFCC chairman to be the nation’s police chief.
Ribadu, who made the clarification in a statement through his spokesman, Mallam Adularia Abdulaziz, insisted that ex-Governor James Ibori was instrumental to Okiro’s appointment as IGP.
He said an influential former governor from North central and a couple of other people helped to facilitate Okiro’s selection by Ibori as IGP.
“Our attention has been drawn to the shameless lies a former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro recklessly spewed to the media yesterday. The cause of Mr. Okiro’s anger, the statement, in a London court, by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu that James Ibori was instrumental to his emergence as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) needs no further equivocation as it was an open secret to everybody in the government circle then.
“If Okiro is now denying this in public, there is no way he can deny this open secret to a number of people including an influential governor from the Northcentral then, and a couple of other people who helped facilitate his selection by Ibori.
“The truth is Nuhu Ribadu’s focus then was consolidating on his modest efforts at the EFCC, especially at a time when he was working on high-profile cases, including that of Okiro’s godfather, James Ibori.
“We therefore challenge Okiro to name those people he called Ribadu’s friends that narrated the fictitious story of Ribadu’s interest in becoming the IGP to him.”
Contrary to Okiro’s claim, Ribadu said he has evidence to show that an assassination attempt was made on his life.
He said: “The highest distortion in Okiro’s statement, however, is his attempt to rewrite the well-known and widely documented assassination attempts on the former EFCC chairman
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