They say I’m corrupt because I’m successful – Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, says some people think he is corrupt just because he is successful.

Speaking in an interview with CNN Africa published on Friday, he reiterated that if he was corrupt, he would have been charged to court or indicted.

He said he had thrown an open challenge to members of the public for anyone with any evidence of corruption against him to present it but so far, nobody had come up with anything.

Asked by the interviewer, “Why do you think your name is linked to corruption?” Atiku said, “I have been successful. Secondly, I have never been charged; I have never been indicted. They are all allegations. And I have asked anybody, I dared people publicly, that is, if anybody has evidence of corruption against me, let him come out.”

“Are you corrupt?” the interviewer asked.

“Certainly not;  because if I am corrupt, I would have been certainly charged or indicted,” the former Vice-President said.