Former Kaduna Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has accused National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, of lying about his past statements on President Bola Tinubu’s corruption allegations.
El-Rufai claims that Ribadu, as the former EFCC chairman, had indeed accused Tinubu of corruption, contrary to Ribadu’s recent denial.
The controversy started when Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad, a former commissioner in the Police Service Commission, alleged that Ribadu had described Tinubu, Senators George Akume, and Orji Uzor Kalu as highly corrupt during his time at the EFCC.
Ribadu’s lawyer demanded a public apology and retraction from Muhammad.
Reacting, El-Rufai stated that records of Senate proceedings and Federal Executive Council meetings would prove Ribadu’s past accusations against Tinubu.
He also suggested that Ribadu might be suffering from “serious amnesia”.
“The record of proceedings in the Senate will confirm that Nuhu made those statements, sometime in 2006.
‘’The subsequent Daily Trust report of February 2007, reconfirms the essence of the statements.
“The conclusions of the Federal Executive Council in 2006, which can be subpoenaed from the cabinet secretariat of the SGF’s office contain the allegations.
‘’In that special FEC meeting in which I was a member, Nuhu’s EFCC made similar presentations accusing many sitting officials, sometime in 2006. These council conclusions will further remove all doubts.
“This is for the record and to remind the morally-flexible that at some point in our national life, silence is no longer golden,” a report in the Daily Trust newspaper on Wednesday quoted El-Rufai as saying.
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