Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has denied being a corrupt person, a label that was created in the wake of a political tussle between him and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Atiku made this known in an interview with some officials from the media team of the EFCC, 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.”

He said: “the court rightly dismissed all those indictments as being mere political; and till today nobody has ever indicted me of corruption.”

Also responding to allegations of corruption leveled against him by the Governor of Kaduna State, el-Rufai’s in his book Accidental Public Servant, Atiku said el-Rufai did not give any evidence or prove where I 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 ministerial confirmation screening, Atiku said: “No, that is absolutely not true.”

Atiku noted that el-Rufai ran to him and complained that he was denied confirmation by the Senate, adding that he called Mantu and others and confronted them.

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.”

He said: “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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Who is that person that said Atiku is corrupt

Ok

i hope so..

Story for the gods

zakim:

He said: “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?”

Same campaign funds that Dasuki was managing that earned him a year in prison?

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na you go speak for yourself?

These days, everyone has their own definition of corruption. Not too long ago, one even said its not the same thing as stealing

He's not a thief.

He's a criminal

Atiku will you STFU

ole oniro jatijati


very soon Ipob will adopt you too

The lies that men tell...

i agree!
he isnt corrupt





he is just crooked

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,..

alright

Taaaaa

All Nigerian politicians are corrupt, it's as if it's part of the oath they took

For those who query why the EFCC only questions personalities linked to GEJ, here you go. Atiku has been questioned by the EFCC:

Atiku made this known in an interview with some officials from the media team of the EFCC, published in the latest edition of the anti-graft agency’s Zero Tolerance Magazine.

If there is any word we can use than corrupt you are only you are wise.

50 million naira campaign funds? And one wonders why we are currently in a recession?

naso kamnukwa

2019 on Buhari's mind.

stories for the gods abeg
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tis berra nt to xpose urself by urself
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what's corruption sef

Obasanjo really did serious damage to Atiku's political career. He has not been able to recover from the smear campaign Obasanjo launched against him.

Atiku is doing all he can to warm his way into the hearts of the electorate. I hopefully pray he succeeds this time.

Atiku is a slippery snake and all his political associates need be wary of him. Im presently reading former President Obassanjo"s book 'my watch', and in his narrative he has nothing but uncomplimentary words to describe Atiku and his shady character. I believe obassanjo's account

One of the richest politician in Nigeria. How did you get your money. As you are busy preparing for your presidential race, OBJ is busy perfecting how to stop you.

No naa, mbanu, how can u be corrupt?

am I?

Obiwannn:
50 million naira campaign funds? And one wonders why we are currently in a recession?

The way they loot and embezzle public money is alarming