ASSASSINATION BID: YOU ARE A LIAR, RIBADU RELPIES MIKE OKIRO.

Former chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),  Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has described the former inspector general of police (IGP) and incumbent Police Service Commission Chairman, Mr. Mike Okiro, as a serial liar, for allegedly trying to re-write history on the attempted assassination plot on him and denying that former governor James Ibori facilitated his (Okiro) appointment as IGP. Ribadu, who spoke through his spokesman, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, yesterday challenged Okiro to name those who told him about Ribadu’s interest in becoming the IGP then.

His words: “Our attention has been drawn to the shameless lies a former inspector general of police, Mr. Mike Okiro, recklessly spewed to the media. 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 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 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman and later, regrettably, as the chairman of the Police Service Commission.
“The assertion by Okiro that Ribadu wanted to be the IGP further underlines the former IGP as a perennial peddler of falsehood. The truth is Nuhu Ribadu’s focus then was on consolidating on his modest efforts at the EFCC, especially at a time when he was working on high-profile cases, including that of Okiro’s godfather, James Ibori. We, therefore, challenge Okiro to name those people, he called Ribadu’s friends, that narrated the fictitious story of Ribadu’s interest in becoming the IGP to him.”

Source:This Day.