Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has gone incommunicado as the Peoples Democratic Party chieftains have resolved to make him chairman of the main opposition party.
The decision was said to have been agreed upon, during a meeting of the national caucus of the PDP- which is currently ongoing in Abuja, after which the National Executive Committee will meet at the Wadata Plaza secretariat of the party.
Premium Times reports that Ribadu had initially agreed to accept the job as PDP chairman but supposedly had a change of heart as a result of a perceived ‘lack of seriousness to truly reform the party by its top echelon’.
However, in the past few days, top party chieftains and governors are said to be have had a tough time convincing Ribadu to accept to take over the party’s affairs.
The report further stated that some of the party’s governors visited Ribadu in a ‘last-minute effort to get him to change his position’ but he’s said to be against taking up the charge.
A source was quoted by Premium Times, to have said: “Since midnight yesterday, party chieftains led by a governor from the South-south region began a search for Ribadu, to no avail.”
“The ex-EFCC chair was said to have gone incommunicado since last night, making all attempts to reach him impossible. Ribadu is skeptical of taking the PDP job because of the battered image the party has suffered, especially with the ongoing corruption probes.”
“He is also not confident that the party’s bigwigs would tolerate his radical disposition,” the source was further quoted to have said.
Thus far, all attempts to reach Ribadu by journalists as well as the PDP chieftains have proved to be unsuccessful, hence the conjecture that he may have gone into hiding to avoid taking the role of PDP Chairman.
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