Who ever is deceiving James Onanefe Ibori that his recent parley with media executives will hoodwink Nigerians, by now must have realised that any attempt to whitewash a stinking jail bird will serially reveal deep seated rotten skin that left an appalling and undesirable aroma.
The war agaisnt Ibori should not be smartly limited to Ribadu & Obasanjo against Ibori but it is totally Ibori against the People of the Commonwealth of which Nigeria is one.
Some Nigerians are not stupid & will never sell their conscience for anything, I made this assertion based on my first hand experience as a Counsel to ensure that Ibori and Co. have date with our law over some alleged financial sleaze that was perpetrated during his tenure as Governor of Delta State, particularly the allegation of using Supplementary budget to wantonly loot over N165 Billion Naira from the treasury of the State.
Nigerians are not stupid and Ibori should be asked whether Ribadu or Obasanjo had hands in his double conviction 18 years ago in Britain, as the case goes, Ibori and his then girlfriend(now wife), Theresa Ibori(nee Nakanda), were found guilty of theft committed at a supermaket in london. Mr. Ibori was fined 300 pounds sterling and ordered to pay another 450 pounds sterling as cost.
Mr. Ibori was convicted again, this time for handling a stolen credit card, on the day this conviction was been narrated by Rotimi Jacobs at Federal High Court, Kaduna, as the next person sitting very close to the lanky Ibori who was standing in the dock, I was surprised to note that Ibori nodded severally in agreement with Rotimi Jacobs’s impeccable narration of these facts.
Ibori also needs to be asked whether Ribadu & Obasanjo had anything to do with his famous sleeze of 1993, during the reign of General Sani Abacha, on how he was involved in more than a million dollars found in his account by the US.
The same Ibori, not Ochuko Ibori needs to be asked whether Ribadu and Obasanjo front loaded their indictment of Ibori to convicted a man named James Onanefe Ibori of negligent conduct and criminal breach of trust in 1995.
Interestingly Ibori did not name the much expected Delta Elders & Citizen Forum led by Chief E.K. Clark that have been calling for prosecution of their son over the alleged crime as those behind his woes.
He expects us to be stupid, otherwise he would never have come up with such thrash of naming Ribadu and Obasanjo as behind his woes.
In as much as Obasanjo has being accused of several things, with the information I am previledged to have, Obasanjo even stopped the impeachment of Ibori.
Nigerians are all nerves to ensure that Ibori and his likes pay for his sins against his motherland and humanity.
The questions the media executives should have asked Ibori are : Did you steal or did you not? If you did not steal, why are you and your associates being tried left, right and centre? Why have you always been associated with stealing and criminal trial as well as serially convicted, even before Ribadu became EFCC chairman?
Ibori ought to have been tried for concealment of information and the breach of our sacred Constitution for even presenting himself for the post of Governor of Delta State despite the provision barring ex-convict from holding a public office.
The press statement itself is an attempt to prejudice the extant cases before the Federal High Court, Asaba and has affected his bail conditions and as such his bail presently stands revoked.
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