Why I returned to APC – Ribadu

Former chairman of the EFCC Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, has explained why he decided to return to the All Progressive Congress (APC), a party he dumped two years ago

He made an official statement about his return on his Facebook page on Friday, declaring, “My decision to return to the APC was triggered by my belief that all politics are local. Almost everyone around me, and with whom we started my political journey believed the time had come for us to make sacrifices and make concessions. That is in addition to the unbelievable love that my friends in the APC have showered on me in the past months.

“They demonstrated in words and action that they wanted me back home. The intractable crises in the PDP also made it impossible for one to contribute to the necessary task of building a viable opposition platform for our country.

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“I also did a deep and long reassessment of the circumstances that warranted my exit from the APC in the first place. I left the APC in 2014 owing to fundamental disagreements with the ways the chapter of the party in my state was run after it fell into some hands.”

Ripples Nigeria had reported on Wednesday that the pioneer chairman of the EFCC return was predicated on a letter sent to him by the Adamawa state chapter of the APC, an event Ripples Nigeria also reported unsettled former vice President Atiku Abubakar and the state governor, Jibrilla Bindow.

Ribadu had left the APC after he felt disappointed that the party leadership could not save former Governor Murtala Nyako from being impeached by the state House of Assembly in 2014.

He then cross-carpeted to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he was handed governorship candidate in the April 11, 2015 elections which he lost to the incumbent, Jubrilla Bindow.