By Ikechukwu
Amaechi
There is no politically discerning Nigerian who
has not heard the news. Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of anti-graft agency, the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the presidential candidate
of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011, has defected to
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the leading opposition, the All
Progressives Congress (APC), because he wants to govern Adamawa, his home
state.
Nuhu Ribadu
A legitimate
ambition no doubt. But to titivate same in the garb of public good is arrant
nonsense. But that is quintessential Ribadu. He thinks Nigerians are ever
gullible. The office became vacant after Governor Murtala Nyako was
impeached on July 15 by the House of Assembly upon adoption of the report of
the seven-member panel that investigated allegations of gross misconduct
against him.
Ribadu has the inalienable right to belong to
any political party and to pursue whatever political aspiration that appeals to
his ego. But has no right to insult Nigerians in his pursuit. But that
was exactly what he did when he claimed that his defection from the APC to the
PDP was in pursuit of a good cause and not out of selfish interest.
