No more Presidency Ambition, Ribadu guns for Adamawa Governorship Position

The imminent decision of former anti graft czar, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to contest the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Adamawa State is stirring the hornet's nest with stakeholders in the dominant Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at daggers drawn over the propriety of serving juice to their one time tormentor

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was the only person to have aspired to govern Adamawa State that ever got near to his ambition. Occupying the Adamawa Government House, just like the Nigerian presidency, has been a matter of luck and certainly so for the three men to have so far occupied it since the advent of the fourth republic.
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Mallam Ribadu defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC despite being the 2011 presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN it is alleged was upon his conviction that the 2015 presidential ticket of the APC was out of his reach. Sources claim that he was few weeks ago told point blank by some revered national APC elders to vie for the Adamawa governorship. That exhortation it was assumed was a subtle message to him that he was not in favour for the 2015 presidential ticket of the APC.

That message apparently merged into plans by some elements in the presidency to also splinter the APC. One very influential presidency official from Adamawa State, who is also claimed to be a childhood friend of Ribadu's was said to have pushed his name to the president.

It is claimed that the president was won over on the issue of Ribadu, his former friend turned rival in the 2011 presidential election, returning to the PDP. The president it was learnt was, however, alleged to have insisted that Ribadu could be given the ticket but only on a level playing ground. That assurance was enough for the presidential official to now work the other appendages of power especially through the PDP national secretariat to set off the buzz on Ribadu.
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