“There are worse people than James Ibori in Nigeria. Probably, he was not the smartest one among them, but there are some crooks worse than James and I still see them. Some of them are even being celebrated right now in our country,” Ribadu said in a recent interview with Zero Tolerance, a magazine published by the EFCC’s media unit. Ibori is serving a 13-year jail sentence in the UK after a Southwark Crown Court 9 in London, on April 17, 2012, found him guilty of stealing and laundering billions of naira of Delta state money.
The former governor, who led Delta state between 1999 and 2007, was first investigated by the EFCC under Ribadu and later, under Farida Waziri.
Ribadu’s unceremonious exit from the post was largely blamed on the Ibori case as the former governor was a major backer of the then President, Umaru Yar’adua.
The case soon went cold after Ribadu’s removal, amid allegations that Ibori was shielded by the government with the support of the EFCC.
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