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.
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