Mallam Nuhu Ribadu
mni (born 21 November, 1960) is a former
Nigerian police officer and politician who was the Chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Task Force and a former Nigerian government anti-corruption official. He was the pioneer Executive Chairman of
Nigeria
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's
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
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(EFCC), the government commission tasked with countering corruption and fraud. In April 2009, he became a visiting fellow at the
Center for Global Development
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History
It was founded in November 2001 by former senior U.S. official Edward W. Scott, direc ...
.
He lived in exile until 2010 when he returned to Nigeria and declared his intention to run for President of Nigeria under the platform of the
Action Congress of Nigeria
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(ACN). On Friday, 14 January 2011, Nuhu Ribadu was adopted as the presidential candidate of the ACN.
In August 2014, he defected to the ruling party PDP with the intention to run for the Governorship of Adamawa State, North East Nigeria.
Education
Ribadu studied law at
Ahmadu Bello University
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is a federal government research university in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. ABU was founded on 4 October 1962, as the pioneer university in Northern Nigeria. It was founded and named after the Sardauna of Sokoto, Al ...
in
Zaria
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,
Kaduna State
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from 1980 until 1983, receiving a
Bachelor of Laws
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degree. Following a year at the
Nigerian Law School
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, he was called to Bar in 1984. He also earned a
Master of Laws
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degree from the same university.
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Fellow and a Senior Fellow in St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK.
The Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, appointed him to the chairmanship of the EFCC in 2003 and reappointed him in 2007, as well as promoting him to the position of Assistant Inspector General of Police.
The promotion on 9 April 2007, three weeks before newly elected President
was sworn-in, was later challenged on the basis that it was "illegal, unconstitutional, null and void, and of no legal effect."
In December 2007,
, Inspector-General of Police, stated that Ribadu would be removed as EFCC chairman for a one-year training course.