Simon Kolawole, in "The Welcome Party For Ibori" article (THIS DAY daily paper of Sunday December 25, 2016), denounced the gigantic festivals Chief James Onanefe Ibori's discharge from UK imprison evoked. He declared the festivals "unconstrained and genuine" however recorded a few reasons he discovered them horrifying, subsequently rehashing the deceptions the controlled broad communications has been unleashing against Ibori. In "Why Supporters Celebrated Ibori's Release" (backpage of first January 2017 THISDAY daily paper), I depended on court records alone to demonstrate the narrative confirmation the Nigerian legal depended on to infer that the Bwari Upper Area Court judgment that guaranteed to have indicted one James Onanefe Ibori was a phony. A case concerning Shuabu Anyebe, a night guard, who couldn't represent two packs of zinc, was doctored to peruse James Ibori and the sum changed from N10,000 to N110 million.

I cleared out one notable issue untouched: those behind the frauds and what constrained their activity. The ex-convict body of evidence was the departure plot against Ibori; different plots proceeded when it fizzled until Ibori was compelled to escape Nigeria to spare his imperiled life. In any case, why the plots?

In front of 2003 General Elections, Ibori facilitated 15 of the 21 Peoples Democratic Party Governors at the Delta State Governor's Lodge, Abuja and they consented to contradict previous President Olusegun Obasanjo's re-designation inferable from his domineering and noxious inclinations against autonomous disapproved of legislators. From that point, Ibori drove the assignment of Governors (counting Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and Bonnie Haruna) to advise the then PDP National Chairman, Audu Ogbeh, of the choice by 2am. Ogbeh educated Obasanjo promptly.

From that November 2002 night till only two days to the January 2003 PDP Annual Convention, the coalition of 15 Governors held and had a breakfast meeting with Obasanjo and the PDP administration, where Vice President Atiku Abubakar told Obasanjo that he was exceptionally authoritarian, malignant and unforgiving. Obasanjo bid for support and guaranteed to change; he got a relief.

I told Ibori at the 2003 PDP tradition that Obasanjo could never excuse him for the "fizzled upset". At the point when Ibori complimented Obasanjo for his re-selection, which came after the Governors had yielded and upheld him, Obasanjo let him know that he (Ibori) had peddled the view that "I Obasanjo was unsellable, unmarketable, and unelectable, all your life I will make you Ibori unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable".

Along these lines, when three weeks after the tradition, the ex-convict assertion emerged, its source was clear. At the point when the dubious court case finished to support Ibori and Ibori went to Aso Rock to tell Obasanjo of his triumph, Obasanjo shot a Yoruba precept: "If the projectile that was intended to execute a man touches his head, the individual ought to go and express gratitude toward God." Ibori understood that the case was intended to murder him politically, however he didn't speculate other "slugs" would take after.

Anthony Alabi and Andrew Oru, offended parties in the Ibori ex-convict case, were quite recently pawns. In PDP's legal advisor, J. C. Obialor's nearness, Alabi admitted; yet I'll spare the correct subtle elements for my book: "The March of Justice; The Whole Truth of The Ibori Ex-Convict Case." Aso Rock affected the ex-convict intrigue, with a serving Anambra State representative cum Obasanjo's kid's immediate sponsorship, with the information of a past against unite office boss from Adamawa State. A solitary term House of Reps part from Edo State, a legal counselor, investigated the fashioned reports and affirmed them as adequate for PDP to stop Ibori, yet Ogbeh baffled them by demanding just a court profession to stop Ibori. Furthermore, that proclamation cleared Ibori.

Kolawole composed on the ex-convict case: "The then Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Tafa Balogun, at long last gave Ibori a spotless bill." Wrong: IGP Balogun joined the pack up against Ibori. Associate Police Commissioner, Ahmed Fari Yusuf, after examination, called the Bwari judgment an imitation as Ibori would never have been summoned as the case wasn't accounted for in any Police Station, had no complainant, no Investigating Police Officer, and so forth, however that Shuaibu Anyebe's case was doctored to seem like Ibori's.

At that point he captured the lay Judge of that Bwari court for imitation and reported he would uncover his supporters. At that point somebody got Balogun to request that the judge be discharged and issue a moment report, which now held that Ibori was really sentenced, however no new proof rose up out of any new examination. Despite the fact that Ibori's attorneys subpoenaed Balogun to bring a few archives, he completely cannot. That clarifies this announcement from Ibori's legal advisor, Paul Milton Ohwovoriole, in court: "We requested Police Case File on Case No. CR 81-95. Two: FIR of 81-95. Three: Statement of denounced in Case No. 81-95. Four: Copy of Ibori's appeal to the President, replicated to the Inspector General of Police. Five: Report of fourteenth February 2003. Where is that report?"

Balogun's illustrative, AIG Columbus Okiro, answered: "That is not here. We have the answer of the Inspector-General to the President of eighth June 2004."

That report was another unrefined imitation as the letter-head paper bore the Commander of the Federal Republic National Honors title that Balogun did not get until December 8, 2004 – precisely six months in front of the date on the letter. So Balogun was against Ibori.

Kolawole composed: "EFCC, under Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, was a powerful instrument in the hands of Obasanjo in the counter join campaign. The war was undeniably specific and pernicious — yet there were no fabricated charges." My answer: Yes, Obasanjo utilized Ribadu and EFCC as psychological militants against his political rivals. Also, there were exaggerated charges in abundance. The Cable, Kolawole's online medium, distributed this: "Selective: Ribadu has implored me, says Atiku." Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says Nuhu Ribadu, has apologized to him for the claims of debasement the counter unite organization leveled against him in 2006. He said when Ribadu was running for president in 2011, he came and approached him for absolution over the scene which harmed the previous VP politically.

Atiku said: "I asked him, 'Nuhu, I excuse everybody, and I pardon you, yet will you backpedal to people in general and apologize about every one of the untruths you told about me?' He was then worried about his notoriety. Obviously, I was thinking about whether he thought about my own notoriety when he was bearing false observer against me and wrongfully bolting my companions up attempting to drive them to produce confirmation of debasement against me. Atiku kept up that the defilement affirmations against him were politically persuaded on account of his go head to head with Obasanjo."

The Cable included: "In spite of the fact that Atiku got the indictment(s) suppressed in the court and in the end challenged in the (2007) race, be that as it may, Atiku left the PDTF undertaking with people in general picture that he was a degenerate legislator, a recognition that many see as his gooney bird till today." This gooney bird is even more genuine of Ibori, all in view of Obasanjo's political quarrel.

However, the genuine proof of Ribadu's perniciousness and exaggerated charges originates from Nasir el-Rufai's "Coincidental Public Servant" book, page 358, in an area entitled "Umaru Asks Nuhu for Support: the Beginning of Our Trouble" he composed that Ribadu was maddened to the point that previous President Olusegun Obasanjo had favored Yar'Adua above Nasir-el-Rufai to succeed him as President in 2007 that he advised Yar'Adua to his face: "the extent that the administration is concerned, I have my possibility for president, and that is El-Rufai". El-Rufai proceeded on page 359: "(Ribadu) tidied off every one of the records against Umaru and propelled examinations. He was plainly attempting to remove Yar'Adua from the race and tight all alternatives to zero with the exception of El-Rufai". El-Rufai then told Ribadu that he was after Yar'Adua for no solid reason but since "I am your companion."

In this way, Yar-Adua could never have named a power-infuriated Ribadu, who maliciously captured Katsina state's LGA administrators on exaggerated charges that were later dropped, to stay as EFCC Chairman. Yar'Adua having actually encountered the shrewdness in Ribadu's EFCC, needed to end it. In this way, he required no proposal from Ibori and Dr. Bukola Saraki to do as such.

Kolawole composed: "Ibori was captured at the Kwara express senator's cabin in Abuja." This is another lie!

Wednesday, twelfth December 2007, two EFCC specialists entered the Kwara Governor's Lodge and told Saraki's Aide de Camp (ADC) that they came to capture Ibori. Without reaching his Governor, the ADC requested warrant of capture; the EFCC authorities had none. In this way, the ADC approached them to leave for he would not permit them capture any spirit without a warrant.

At the point when the interlopers left, the ADC went to brief his central. At that point as Ibori and his host couldn't achieve Ribadu to affirm what was going on, they called Ribadu's companion, Andy Uba, who guaranteed to contact Ribadu. The three consented to meet in Uba's home.

Ibori and Saraki met Ribadu's representative, Ibrahim Lamorde, at Uba's home and when Ibori inquired as to why EFCC specialists were after him in the lanes when they knew his home or could have called him to come, Lamorde answered that Ribadu was sitting tight for Ibori in the workplace to clarify matters. At 1pm, Ibori drove the Peugeot 406 auto that was being utilized by his helpers to the EFCC home office, Abuja, with Lamorde on the front traveler situate.

At that point Ribadu requested that Ibori telephone President Umaru Yar'Adua. "Educate him that I am regarding to capture and charge you in court. Request that he talk about with me. On the off chance that he requests that I set you free, I will readily do that. However, I have to converse with him." An irate Ibori told Ribadu that his debilitated capture had gone on sufficiently long and he would guard himself and demonstrate that the charges being leveled against him.

Who were these people? Watchout and Stay tune as story continues next Saturday.

Eluemunor, Ibori’s Media Assistant, lives in Abuja.

Excerpt from www.today.ng by Tony Eluemunor.