Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president of Nigeria, has alleged that Nasir el-Rufai, a former minister of the Federal Capital Territory and currently the governor of Kaduna State, offered him shares in Transcorp Plc, but he rejected the offer because it was unethical.
Abubakar said this in an interview published in Zero Tolerance, a publication of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
“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 in response to a question that he was corrupt.
“I remember the only corruption indictment against me was a white paper which was cooked up by our own administration over night to include 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.”
On allegations on corruption levelled against him by el-Rufai in the book, ‘Accidental Public Servant,’ Abubakar said: “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?”
El-Rufai is a former minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), and ex-director-general of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
