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 content
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