The pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has officially returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ribadu made his return to the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday and he was welcomed with open arms.
Announcing his defection, Ribadu said in a statement he posted on his Facebook page that on his return to the party, he was hosted officials of the party from his Bako Ward in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
The former police officer disclosed that he later visited the Yola South secretariat of the APC to present himself to the party.
According to Ribadu, he rejoined the APC due to his belief that all politics were local and that almost everyone around him who started politics with him believed the time had come for them to make sacrifices and concession.
“My decision to return to the APC was triggered by my belief 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. That is in addition to the unbelievable love that my friends in the APC have showered on me in the past months.
“They demonstrated in words and action that they wanted me back home. The intractable crises in the PDP also made it impossible for one to contribute to the necessary task of building a viable opposition platform for our country.
“I also did a deep and long reassessment of the circumstances that warranted my exit from the APC in the first place. I left the APC in 2014 owing to fundamental disagreements with the ways the chapter of the party in my state was run after it fell into some hands,” he explained.
Ribadu was a former presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, which merged with other parties to form the APC.
