Adamawa Governorship: Presidency Dumps Ribadu

Olufamous–Jolted by the acri­mony trailing his en­trance into the PDP, the Presidency may have withdrawn its support for the former EFCC chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

Saturday Sun checks revealed that Presidency was worried by the gang-up by certain governorship aspi­rants for the Adamawa governorship ticket on PDP plat­form against Mallam Ribadu and intelligence reports that former Vice-president, Atiku Abubakar was waiting in the wings to exploit the acrimo­ny in the ruling party to the advantage of the main oppo­sition party, the APC.

A source fin­gered a presidential aide from Adamawa State and arrow­head of the Ribadu governor­ship project as the one who misled the Presidency on the political weight of Nuhu Ribadu.

“The race in the coming days is likely to be very in­teresting but we have all re­solved to be very careful because in politics, you cannot take chances, especially ones that are likely to jeopardise the chances of your party.  When the issue of Ribadu first came up, some indices which we are witnessing now had not come up then…“For instance, no one knew that the acting governor was going to be interested. Also, the impression was cre­ated that all other aspirants were going to step down for him (Ribadu) on the inter­vention of a mutual friend of most them who brought the Ribadu option.