Nuhu Ribadu
While narrating how the EFCC during his tenure in conjunction with
U.S. authorities almost arrested the president's wife, Aisha Buhari's
impostor who is indicted in the highly publicised Halliburton scandal,
former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has told Premium Times his own
side of the story.
“She is a different person and has lived in the U.S. for years.
The EFCC was working with U.S. authority to arrest her before I left
the commission. She was using the Buhari name for influence.
“The EFCC laid ambush to see if she would come into the country
so she could be arrested. I didn’t know what happened to the plan to
arrest her after I left,” he said.
Ribadu however said if Nigerian authorities were still interested
in the case it was easy to establish her real name, adding that this
should not be a problem for investigators because she recently renewed
her passport at the Nigeria embassy in Washington and they should still
have a file on her.
Ibrahim Lamorde, Ribadu’s successor at the EFCC, had earlier said that
President Buhari’s wife was not the person mentioned in the scandal as
alleged by the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose who had
distributed a link to the U.S. Department of Justice Website holding
court documents where a certain Aisha Buhari was alleged to have
transferred suspicious funds to a convicted former American congressman,
Williams Jefferson.
“I can tell you authoritatively that the Aisha Buhari named in
that case is not President Buhari’s wife. It is another Aisha Buhari
entirely.
“I was the director of operations at the EFCC at the time so I
know about the case very well. I can tell you that it is not her
(President Buhari’s wife). That much we established,” Mr. Lamorde said.
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