Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- Nuhu Ribadu shot to national prominence in 2003 when the then President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him as the pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He got endeared to the international community when he famously rejected a $15 million bribe by an allegedly corrupt governor to compromise his investigation of him.

After he left the police force as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), he tried his hands in partisan politics where he became the presidential candidate of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 and since then has gone on to become a gubernatorial aspirant in his nativeAdamawa State.

Against all odds, he was appointed as the National Security Adviser ...