Ribadu defends why he defect to PDP

Date: 18-08-2014 9:34 am (9 years ago) | Author: ifeoma chukwu
- at 18-08-2014 09:34 AM (9 years ago)
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Nuhu Ribadu who is the former EFCC boss and the 2011 presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, forerunner of the APC, said there was no difference between the PDP and APC, in terms of the character of the people who constituted both parties.

Explaining his reason for decamping APC, unlike any other defectors who always found solace in some party strong men threatening them as escape route, Ribadu made it clear that his decision was taken in the overriding interest of serving the people.

According to his spokesman, Mr. Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, He said,

“In Nigeria, especially in politics, you can’t say that this is an exclusive party for the people who are thieves or this is for good people.

“It’s just like saying that all Yorubas are this or all Igbos are this. In every group of people, there must be good people and there are bad people. Of course, the good may be more than the bad or the bad may be more than the good in any group.

“But there is no any party that is exclusively for the good people or for the bad people.”

He said that his defection was not borne out of his desperation to realize his political ambition but was based on his patriotic zeal to serve the country and its people.

Abdulaziz said, “It is not true that he (Ribadu) was desperate to realise his political ambition. This is because this decision was taken in the overriding interest of serving the people.

“What matters for him is service. That is why even when he was a member of the opposition party, when government asked him to serve the country, he accepted the offer and he did a wonderful job that everybody hailed except those who don’t want change in the system.

“If you are ready to serve the people, sometimes you will have to do something that is not even palatable to yourself.”

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