He was a driving force among the team of reformers during President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term: Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Education Minister Obi Ezekwesili anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise Irene Chigbue...
The incumbent Federal Capital Minister Nasir el-Rufai and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu will get key posts...
However some months ago the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu assured journalists that he would be presenting Odili with a dossier outlining his misuse of state funds over the past eight years...
Within its ranks the PDP has even tolerated a group of reformers led by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nasir el-Rufai and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu who speak of a permanent revolution and of changing the face of Nigeria...
EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu insists that the investigation must proceed given that the sacked Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is being held on corruption charges which have forced Odili's ally Rotimi Amaechi off the State ticket...
Both Yar'Adua and Buhari support the work of Nuhu Ribadu Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
Significantly Buhari warmly praised Nuhu Ribadu of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for his dogged pursuit of corrupt officials although many other opposition politicians have accused Ribadu of operating a political agenda for Obasanjo...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
One of the few genuinely popular public officials in Nigeria Nuhu Ribadu head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will be a key player in the electoral cycle...
They also coincided with the independent attempts by the remaining reformers in the Obasanjo government - the EFCC's Chairman Nuhu Ribadu Federal Capital Territory Minister Nasir el-Rufai and Education Minister Obiageli Ezekwesili - to make a final push against grand corruption before next year's elections...
Younger Nigerians are excited about the possibility that the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory Nasir el-Rufai might take a run at the PDP nomination with the backing of the government's remaining reformers such as EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu and Education Minister Obiageli Ezekwesili...
Nuhu Ribadu's anti-corruption fight and Obasanjo's commitment to it puzzles many...
