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Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Is Atiku Abubakar corrupt?

Atiku tells the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he is not corrupt
– The politician also blasts El-Rufai, saying that ‘he offered me shares in Transcorp but I declined’
– Meanwhile, some Nigerians doubt that the former VP has never taken bribes
Ex-vice president and businessman, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the corrupt accusations that emerged in a wake of a political feud between him and ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo.
In a an interview granted to the media team of the EFCC and published in the latest edition of the anti-graft agency’s Zero Tolerance Magazine, Atiku said that he is not corrupt.
Former VP said: “ I remember the only corruption indictment against me was a white paper which was cooked up by our own administration overnight 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 today nobody has ever indicted me of corruption.”
Atiku also responded to accusations of corruption brought against him by the Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna state in his book Accidental Public Servant. The politician added that el-Rufai did not give any fact or prove where he was corrupt.
“This is the same el-Rufai and others who incorporated Transcorp during my time as Vice President and offered me shares and I declined,” he stated.
“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.”
“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

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