On this day in 2008, contrary to media reports that the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has been barred from entering the presidential villa, the head of anti-graft agency meets President Umaru Musa Yar'adua and other officials in Aso Rock for an undisclosed meeting.
There have speculations that the EFCC chairman had been stopped from visiting the villa or having direct access to the president as a result of the fallout from his nomination to proceed on study leave at the National Institute for policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau state.
It was earlier reported that President Yar'adua yielded to pressures from James Ibori on the removal of Nuhu Ribadu and approved a memo submitted by the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro to send Nuhu Ribadu on a one-year compulsory study leave to the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru -Jos.
The sources in the Aso Rock Villa told newsmen that Yar'adua yielded to James Ibori's pressure because James Ibori was set to release what his aides called an "Atomic Bomb" of information on the financing and rigging of the April 2007 election that brought Yar'adua to power.
Supporters of Nuhu Ribadu also fired back by mounting pressure on Yar'adua to rescind the decision. Nuhu Ribadu was summoned to the Aso Rock villa for an all night meeting said to be an attempt to extract some concession from him should Yar'adua rescind the approval but he did not attend.
It was gathered that hawks within Aso Rock wants Nuhu Ribadu to publicly repudiate his association with Muhammed Buhari, who Ribadu is accused of working with to discredit the Yar'adua administration.
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