' Some go further saying that Yar'Adua will use his stronger legal position to reshuffle his cabinet and distance himself from the governing party's more dubious barons such as former Delta State Governor James Ibori (who has been indicted on corruption charges) and former Rivers State Governor Peter Odili who remains under investigation...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Speculation linked the move against Ribadu who is to go on a nine-month course at the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies to the decision earlier that month to charge James Ibori former Governor of Delta State with 150 counts of corruption...
Former Governor of Delta State James Ibori was arrested in the early hours of 12 December by officials from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who have been investigating his financial affairs for several months...
Vol 48 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- ANALYSIS
They were eventually co-opted and paid off by the former Delta State Governor James Ibori who is under investigation in Britain and the USA for money-laundering...
Its biggest test is the case of the former Delta Governor James Ibori; the EFCC is encouraging London’s Metropolitan Police Service to prosecute him on charges of money laundering...
Along with the embattled James Ibori of Delta State (see Feature) the restive Delta region holds many other examples of Nigeria’s abusive politics...
This time former governors such as James Ibori of Delta State and Peter Odili of Rivers have also been linked to the violent clashes for power in the region...
The EFCC's Ribadu and James Ibori will fight to the finish says one of the latter's associates...
Outgoing governors whom the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has investigated - James Ibori (Delta) Peter Odili (Rivers) Lucky Igbenidion (Edo) Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna) - have tried to secure political cover...
Both claim to have played key roles in the election as does outgoing Delta State Governor James Ibori who expects to get a senior posting...
There is some confusion over what part outgoing Delta State Governor James Ibori might play...