Senator Andy Uba and Chibuike
Achigbu, two principal players in
the $15 million dollars exchange
between Nuhu Ribadu and Chief
James Ibori have finally come
out to claim ownership of the
funds signaling a new twist to
the phoney bribery tale being
peddled by Mr. Ribadu, a
former Chairman of the EFCC.
Chibuike and Uba have
approached the same federal
high court sitting in Abuja to
claim ownership of the funds
just like the Delta State
Government, which maintained
that the funds were taken from
Delta treasury by convicted
former governor Chief James
Ibori.
The EFCC had gone to court to
obtain an order to confiscate the
funds, which Mr. Ribadu
wrongfully claimed was offered
as bribe to him by Chief Ibori to
stall his prosecution for
corruption.
THEWILL had repeatedly
reported that the funds handed
to Ribadu was not a bribe but a
political arrangement between
Ribadu, Ibori and Obasanjo.
The duo said the funds were
handed to Ribadu to finance the
2007 Presidential elections for
the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Details of the filing shortly.
Source: THEWILL
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