A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Nuhu Ribadu has picked up an expression of interest and nomination form of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mr Ribadu had in late July 2016 returned to the party after a stint with the rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he contested the Adamawa governorship election.
Mr. Ribadu had in a statement he posted on his Facebook page said that he rejoined the party online and then hosted officials of the party from his Bako Ward in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
He visited the Yola South secretariat of the APC to present himself to the party.
He had left the party for the PDP in 2014.
Mr. Ribadu, a former presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN( had explained that his return to the APC was triggered by his belief that all politics were local and that almost everyone around him who started politics with him believed the time had come for them to make sacrifices and concession.
He said, “My decision to return to the APC was triggered by my belief that all politics are local. Almost everyone around me, and with whom we started my political journey believed the time had come for us to make sacrifices and make concessions. That is in addition to the unbelievable love that my friends in the APC have showered on me in the past months.
“They demonstrated in words and action that they wanted me back home. The intractable crises in the PDP also made it impossible for one to contribute to the necessary task of building a viable opposition platform for our country.
“I also did a deep and long reassessment of the circumstances that warranted my exit from the APC in the first place. I left the APC in 2014 owing to fundamental disagreements with the ways the chapter of the party in my state was run after it fell into some hands.”
The former EFCC boss is one of the founding leaders of the party, but defected to the PDP in 2014, a few months before the 2015 general elections.
He left the APC after the impeachment of former Governor Murtala Nyako by the State House of Assembly in 2014.
He was reportedly disappointed that the APC leadership could not save Mr Nyako from impeachment.
He became the governorship candidate of the PDP in Adamawa in the April 11, 2015 election but lost to Jubrilla Bindow.