The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, made the greatest mistake in his life when he left the party (APC), a few years back.
The party stated this through its National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, in a text message which he sent in response to a question by Punch Newspaper, on Sunday, July 24.
Insinuation from many quarters revealed that the second coming of Ribadu to APC, has to do with the forthcoming 2019 Presidential permutation.
The ex-EFCC chair, who in 2014, left the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, which later merged with the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, to form the APC, had joined the ruling party, last Thursday.
“I re-registered as a member of the APC on Thursday, through the party’s online portal. After that, the leadership of the party in my Bako ward of Yola South Local Government Area, visited me in my Yola residence, to welcome me back to their fold,” the former ACN presidential aspirant said.
He added: “My decision to return to the APC was triggered by my believe that all politics are local. Almost everyone around me, and with whom we started my political journey, believed the time had come for us to make sacrifices and make concessions”.
Reacting, Oyegun explained that the former EFCC boss made a “bad” mistake, which human beings made now and then.
The APC Chairman, however, said Ribadu was welcome back into the party.
“He made a bad mistake which some of us do now and then. He is most welcome back home.”
Speaking in a similar vein, the party’s Deputy National Chairman (South), Segun Oni, said Ribadu’s return should serve as an impetus for other genuine progressives to return to the APC.
According to him, the former EFCC boss had no reason to leave in the first place. He noted that by his antecedents, Ribadu is a progressive.
Oni, who was a former Governor of Ekiti State, said, “He shouldn’t have left in the first place, there was no reason for that. He is most definitely welcome back home.
“I will like to use this opportunity to call on all progressives, to follow his example, by returning back home, where they truly belong.
“As a progressives’ party, our doors remain open to receive all progressives, especially those who are still on the other side, to return home for us to rebuild our nation.”
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