Former EFCC chairman Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has
responded to former Inspector General of Police Mike
Okiro who said yesterday that Ribadu lied when he
claimed that he (Okiro) was behind two assassination
attempt on his life and not Ibori. Okiro said in a
statement released yesterday that Ribadu is an
inveterate liar and desperately wanted to be IG. Ribadu
has responded to Okiro, calling him corrupt and a
shameless liar. See his press statement below...
Our attention has been drawn to the shameless
lies a former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike
Okiro recklessly spewed to the media yesterday.
The cause of Mr. Okiro's anger, the statement, in a
London court, by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu that James
Ibori was instrumental to his emergence as the
Inspector General of Police (IGP) needs no further
equivocation as it was an open secret to
everybody in the government circle then. If Okiro
is now denying this in public, there is no way he
can deny this open secret to a number of people
including an influential governor from the North-
Central then, and a couple of other people who
helped facilitate his selection by Ibori. It was this
same shameless method of desperate lobbying that
Okiro, a chronic political jobber and sycophant of
the first order would use in getting subsequent
appointments as Chief Security Officer to the PDP
national chairman and later, regrettably, as the
chairman of the Police Service Commission.
The assertion by Okiro that Ribadu wanted to be the
IGP further underlines the former IGP as a perennial
peddler of falsehood. The truth is Nuhu Ribadu's focus
then was consolidating on his modest efforts at the
EFCC, especially at a time when he was working on
high-profile cases, including that of Okiro's godfather,
James Ibori. We therefore challenge Okiro to name
those people he called Ribadu's friends that narrated
the fictitious story of Ribadu's interest in becoming the
IGP to him.
The highest distortion in Okiro's statement, however, is
his attempt to rewrite the well-known and widely
documented assassination attempts on the former
EFCC chairman, and Okiro's hand in it all. It is
ridiculous that Okiro is now desperately trying to paint
himself in another colour after all the schemings he
orchestrated. It beats our imagination that Okiro would
want a Nuhu Ribadu he was fighting to destroy to
report those incidences to him. It would have been a
case of having a culprit to be a judge in his own case.
At the time, the trio of Micheal Aondoakaa, the former
Attorney General of the Federation, Okiro and Mrs
Farida Waziri, the former EFCc chairman, had created a
hell out of the world for Ribadu. The only sensible
thing to do was to avoid these characters and seek
solace somewhere else. This notwithstanding, it is a
blatant lie that Okiro telephoned Ribadu "several times"
but that he did not answer his calls. What Ribadu and
other Nigerians easily recall was an elated Okiro
rushing to address the press to deny something he
knew nothing about. The bullet-riddled car Ribadu
drove during that unfortunate life threatening incident
is still there, if Okiro or any other person would want
further proof.
On the issue of withdrawal of Ribadu's personal
security, if Okiro is suffering from selective amnesia,
let him be reminded that that was exactly what he did.
He also redeployed Ibrahim Lamorde out of EFCC, to
Bauchi State Police Command as Area Commander in
Ningi. He did the same thing to other top EFCC
operatives that Nigeria spent a fortune to train as
investigators. One of them suspected to be close to
Ribadu was even locked up for months in police
custody. This also belie his statement that as IGP he
could not have altered the postings of police within the
EFCC.
As for Okiro's corruption credentials, we would like to
alert the retired IGP that he is dancing naked in the
gallery as his nasty record is something known to a lot
of people. A man who clearly reeks of corruption, is
Okiro denying that he is corrupt when we all know he
cannot account for the source of the wealth he used in
building a shopping mall in Jabi, a hotel with casino in
Lugbe and a private school, all in Abuja? This is not to
mention his property in Lagos and Port Harcourt, while
he was still serving in the police. If a public servant,
one tasked with the responsibility of protecting the
lives of Nigerians and instilling discipline in the police,
managed to amass such wealth, what gut does he have
to talk of corruption? It is a national tragedy that a
man of such flawed character has now been appointed
to head an important institution like the Police Service
Commission. May God rescue Nigeria.
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
Media Assistant to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

Source:
http://lindaikeji..com/2013/09/ribadu-blasts-ex-igp-okiro-describes.html?m=1

Okiro looks exactly like the nigerian police
Dirty,incompetent and very corrupt.
Ribadu win this battle all the time based on integrity .

See pot calling kettle black

Now days these politicians are blasting one another.
We used to do that here too but now they are taking it away from us. Like everything we deserve in our country.

Greedy bunch of people.

Both Okiro& Ribabu ain't saints, they all took instructions n gave out total evil obedience to d then oga at d top! while RIBADU WAS BUSY CHASING PDP COMPETITORS ( CRITICS), OGA OKIRO WAS THERE PRISECUTING THEM &arresting innocent pple

gidjah: Both Okiro& Ribabu ain't saints, they all took instructions n gave out total evil obedience to d then oga at d top! while RIBADU WAS BUSY CHASING PDP COMPETITORS ( CRITICS), OGA OKIRO WAS THERE PRISECUTING THEM &arresting innocent pple

Gbam!!!