Mr Joshua Chibi Dariye

Other cases showing at least a measure of EFCC impartiality under Buhari would include those of Jolly Nyame, ex-Taraba state APC governor, and Joshua Dariye, former APC governor of Plateau State, who were convicted within two weeks of each other in May and June, despite their cases having dragged on at a snail's pace for several years...

Few believe the stars will align as propitiously for the prosecution of any other corrupt Nigerian politicians, even though Britain has outstanding extradition warrants for Joshua Dariye and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, respectively ex-governors of Plateau and Bayelsa states (AC Vol 51 No 12, Welcome to London)...

Plateau’s Joshua Chibi Dariye (1999-2007) survived a money-laundering arrest in London in 2004, long before Alamieyeseigha’s arrest...

Former Plateau Governor Joshua Chibi Dariye was arrested in Britain in 2004 and extradited to Nigeria on money laundering charges but fought them off and reasserted himself as a political godfather in his state...

British police hope Nigeria’s new government under President Goodluck Jonathan will process their extradition requests for the former governors of Plateau and Bayelsa states, Joshua Dariye and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...

Jang is said to have told associates that he would not let Yar'Adua 'toy' with him as ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo had with his predecessor, Joshua Dariye...

It charged the former governors of Plateau State (Joshua Dariye), Abia (Orji Kalu), Jigawa (Aminu Turaki), Taraba (Jolly Nyame) and Enugu (Chimaroke Nnamani) with multiple counts of corruption...

Those who are on the run or out of the country include Joshua Dariye (Plateau State), who was once thrown out of Government House by Obasanjo, arrested in London, then impeached at home; Boni Haruna (Adamawa), a political godson of outgoing Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (now in the USA); Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu) and Saminu Turaki (Jigawa)...

With newspapers and politicians preoccupied by a final, controversial but successful push by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to impeach Plateau Governor Joshua Dariye on 13 November, of the high-profile aspirants only former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida had publicly declared well ahead of the deadline...

Two more states have begun impeachment proceedings against their governors, Joshua Dariye (Plateau State) and Peter Obi (Anambra State)...