Both sidesrealise that, whatever the improvementsof the pastfew years, thereputationalprice of becoming embroiled in casessuch as the Iboriinvestigation is growing.
Ibori was not only a state governor when he committed the alleged crimes, he was also a powerful member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and a financier of the presidential campaign of President Shehu Yar'Adua, now late.
When he took the cash to the CBN in 2007, he said that it was a bribe given to him by James Ibori, then governor of the oil-rich Delta state, to stop the investigation of allegations of monumental corruption against him.