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I Am Not Corrupt – Atiku

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: November 14, 2016
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Former Vice President has denied being a corrupt person as widely believed in many quarters.

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Atiku AbubakarFormer Vice President has denied being a corrupt person as widely believed in many quarters.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.

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.”

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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.”

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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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