Former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who was released from prison in the United Kingdom (UK) in December, has arrived in Nigeria.
Ibori, whose flight landed in Abuja on Saturday morning, left immediately for his hometown, Oghara, in Delta state.
The 57-year-old ran the affairs in Delta from 1999 to 2007, but fled Nigeria in 2010 shortly after the death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua.
He was arrested in Dubai on May 13, 2010 and extradited to the United Kingdom where a Southwark Crown Court jailed him for 13 years for money laundering on April 17, 2012.
Ibori left prisons on the midnight of December 22, 2016 after serving half of his term, taking into account pre-trial detention.
He has indicated he will rejoin politics upon his return to Nigeria and would not quit until his death.
“What happens in African politics – you are in it until you die,” he told Reuters in London after a court hearing on Tuesday.
“I am a politician; I will always be a politician. I play the politics in my party and in my country for the good of my people.”
Ibori, however, said he would not contest any elective position again because he had been barred for 10 year because of his conviction.
