I Laid Ambush To Arrest Aisha Buhari While I Was EFCC Chairman – Ribadu

Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti state governor, had earlier called out president Buhari’s wife, Aisha, for allegedly being involved in the Halliburton bribery scandal, involving a U.S. Congressman, Williams Jefferson for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009.

However, Ribadu has disclosed that the said Aisha Buhari found smearing the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, is different from the wife of the President.

According to former EFCC boss, to get to the roots of the matter, Nigerian authorities should establish her real identity, since she was said to have renewed her passport at the Nigeria embassy in Washington D.C recently.

“She is a different person and has lived in the US for years. She is hardly in Nigeria.

“The EFCC was working with US authorities on the investigations. One of my plans was to arrest her before I left the commission. Our suspicion then was that she was using the Buhari name for influence.

“The EFCC laid ambush to see if she would come into the country so she could be arrested. I didn’t know what happened to the plan to arrest her after I left.”

THE WHISTLER reported, on June 23, 2016, the reaction of wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, where she called Governor Fayose an “Unchained Mad Dog“ via her Twitter handle (@AishaMBuhari), a tweet which was later deleted.

In related news, THE WHISTLER gathered that, Aisha Buhari, the individual whose name and passport is being bandied as the bribe giver in the Haliburton Scandal has denied involvement in the matter.

She was quoted saying “politicians are using my identity to cover up their corruption” 

“If somebody commits crime in the US, he or she must face trial. Have you heard I am being tried in the US?”, she queried.