Yet the man who was the principal financial backer of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua becomes eligible for parole after four and a half years...
He in turn was a man who did little to deflect the impression that his job was to shield from prosecution James Ibori ex-Governor of Delta State and a major contributor to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidential campaign...
In 2009 he clashed with President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua over efforts to cut cement prices...
Ribadu gave Ambassador Robin Sanders a lengthy exposition on corrupt politicians expounding on the careers of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Obasanjo former Delta State Governor James Ibori and several others...
In 2007 he bankrolled a substantial part of the campaign of the eventual President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua...
Sir Peter Odili ex-Governor (1999-2007) of Rivers another oil-rich state was moments away from being nominated as a vice-presidential candidate when (insiders say) outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo struck his name out of the acceptance speech prepared for Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who went on to win the governing party’s presidential primary in December 2006...
It is said that the Okah family has detested Jonathan ever since he worked for the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua visiting MEND leader Henry Okah in South Africa to urge him into the official amnesty programme in July 2009 only months before his arrest in Angola on arms-trafficking charges...
The most celebrated godfather and Governor James Ibori of Delta State won a privileged position for bankrolling Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidential victory in 2007 but fled to Dubai when Goodluck Jonathan took over the presidency last May...
Maryam Yar’Adua daughter of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua lost her House of Representatives contest for Katsina to the CPC candidate Mohammed Tukur...
In 2007 even the victor the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua admitted the election was seriously flawed...
