By Chibuzor Emejor , Correspondent, Abuja

 All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has described as false, claims by former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, that the jail term handed out to Olabode George by a Lagos High Court was a product of efforts of the commission under his leadership.

George was former Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) who was recently convicted over contact splitting by the board during his tenure.

Ribadu had in a statement from his overseas abode claimed that the verdict of Justice Joseph Olubumi Oyewole was as a result of “the long and strained investigation leading to the indictment of Bode George in 2005”.

According to a statement on Sunday by ANPP National Publicity Secretary, Emma Eneukwu, the party believes that Ribadu “should not take glory in this legal victory that he did everything to scuttle as EFCC boss”.

The statement reads in part: “In case Ribadu has forgotten, it was this same case of monumental fraud against Olabode George and his co-travelers in the NPA board that exposed his (Ribadu’s) double standard in the fight against corruption during the regime of his master and political mentor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

“Ribadu who then operated like an assassin dog in the hands of Obasanjo, in his war of attrition against his political opponents, used the EFCC to humiliate his master’s perceived enemies, while at the same time, he gave protective cover to the most corrupt Nigerians of that era, such as George.

“Has Ribadu forgotten so soon, that after his investigation indicted George he was made a member of a Presidential Administrative Panel that returned a verdict of innocence on the former NPA boss?”