ABATI DESPERATE TO SAVE HIS JOB —RIBADU

FORMER Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has described the outburst of the media aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Reuben Abati, as that of “one who is desperate to hold onto his job.”

Ribadu, in a reply to the claim by the presidential spokesman that he was an ingrate, said Abati, “in his desperate attempt to hold  on to his job,” portrayed himself as “typical of his increasingly desperate personality, which has exposed him as a fraudulent presidential spokesman who does not have the simplest level of media literacy.”

Ribadu further said the statement is “a sad commentary on the type of people we have in the helms of our affairs,” adding that “even with the resources at his disposal, Abati could not conduct a little research to save himself from embarrassment before he set out barking.

“It is a huge gaffe for Abati to charge Ribadu of ingratitude as the latter has more valid stand to make similar accusation, having been betrayed after his selfless service to the nation in the Petroleum Revenue Task Force committee,” he said.

Source: Tribune