Atiku Abubakar
Atiku made this known in an interview with some officials from the
media team of the EFCC, which was published in the latest edition of the
anti-graft agency’s Zero Tolerance Magazine.Responding to a question on how allegations of corruption became his
albatross in the race for the presidency in 2006, he said: “well if
Atiku is corrupt, he would have been found guilty of corruption by all
the panels and probes and cases brought before courts.”He said: “I remember the only corruption indictment against me was a
white paper which was cooked up by our own administration over night to
including the very EFCC that I helped found and other cabinet ministers,
which I challenged in court.“The court rightly dismissed all those indictments as being
mere political; and till todayn nobody has ever indicted me of
corruption.”On the allegations of corruption leveled against him by the Governor
of Kaduna State, el-Rufai, in his book, ‘Accidental Public Servant’,
Atiku said el-Rufai did not give any evidence or prove where he was
corrupt.He added that: “this is the same el-Rufai and others who incorporated
Transcorp during my time as Vice President and offered me shares and I
declined.”“I wrote to them officially to say it was unethical of me to have
accepted those offers; so, where is the corruption toga coming from.” He
said.Asked to explain the bribe scandal of N50 million, involving Senator
Ibrahim Mantu, Jonathan Zwingina and others during el-Rufai’s
ministerial confirmation screening, Atiku said: “No, that is absolutely
not true.”He said: “It is also on record, because I controlled campaign funds,
every Senator benefited from those funds; and el-Rufai now went and said
those campaign funds were meant to be bribe.“Of course, my boss, the president, investigated the story and found
out that indeed every Senator got contributions from the campaign fund
which I was managing. So where is the corruption in that?”
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