The governor was responding during a exceedingly|in a very} statement to claims created by Alhaji Atiku in an interview with intolerance, reproduced nowadays by Premium Times.
The governor declared that, contrary to the assertions of Atiku World Health Organization aforesaid he tried to supply him Transcorp shares throughout the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo, he had nothing to try and do with the incorporation of Transcorp.
“Those that established that company and fronted it like Festus Odimegwu, Tony Elumelu, Otunba Lawal Solarin and Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke area unit still around and alive,” the previous Minister aforesaid. “As such I couldn't have and failed to provide Alhaji Atiku any shares in Transcorp. I declined the shares that were offered to Maine. Having done that, however may I even have offered anyone shares?”
On the topic, the governor aforesaid he truly suggested President Obasanjo, Alhaji Atiku then minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at that point to not settle for the shares that were then being offered by the promoters of Transcorp.
It is the primary time it's changing into noesis that Okonjo-Iweala, World Health Organization has forever distanced herself from the corruption and political criminal congress of the Obasanjo days, additionally owns shares in Transcorp.
“My counsel to them was supported the grounds that they'd face conflicts of interest once Transcorp bids for privatization assets,” El-Rufai aforesaid. “At the time Alhaji Atiku and Ngozi were chair and vice-chair of the National Council on Privatization, and were notably directly concerned in approving the sales of state-owned enterprises and assets.”
With relevance the matter of the demand by then Senators Ibrahim Mantu and dessert apple Zwingina to extort N50 million from him in exchange for Ministerial clearance by the Senate, the governor aforesaid it had been too late to faux that it ne'er happened.
Asked within the interview concerning having been the arrow-head of that bribe scandal, Atiku had explicit that El-Rufai should have misconstrued the events. “He truly ran to Maine to mention that he was denied confirmation by the Senate,” he told Premium Times. “Of course, I referred to as Mantu et al. and confronted them, and that they admitted that affirmative they denied him as a result of they are doing not see him as a Minister. it's additionally on record, as a result of I controlled the campaign funds, each legislator benefitted from those funds; and El-Rufai currently went and aforesaid those campaign funds were meant to be a bribe…”
Responding, Governor El-Rufai aforesaid all Atiku has simply done is make sure that he did pay the Senators, as he discovered in Page 139 of his 2013 book, The Accidental employee.
He recalled that once the book was printed, Atiku unleashed his media team in a very campaign of vilification.
“Despite the ferociousness of the attacks, they failed to contest or justify away his shenanigans that were elaborate within the book, from the Ericsson maneuver to the capital of Nigeria water treatment plant contract and his obsession with marabouts and their assurances of the political massive prize. He may additionally think about a full reckoning for what he and his acolytes did with public funds within the PTDF imbroglio, instead of gratification the standard boldface of the Nigerian massive man.”
Affirming that he's unnatural to supply a response to the pretend news and scatterbrained revision of recent history by Alhaji Atiku, the governor characterised the previous Vice-President as having a record of spewing outright lies and insinuation against him.
“As we have a tendency to struggle to create a law-abiding society and secure progressive outcomes for our individuals, we have a tendency to cannot permit the triumph on these shores of these World Health Organization can have USA move to a post-factual world,” he declared. “Not even from a person as practiced as Alhaji Atiku is within the dark arts of damaging others through a campaign of lies from him and his media machine.”
Of their time within the Obasanjo administration, he aforesaid his role and oath of workplace as a federal employee suitably stood with the Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Nigeria, not the massive men whose conduct he was privileged to witness at shut quarters.
“People like Alhaji Atiku suppose that loyalty to them ought to be the goal of a public officer which it ought to trump the oath of allegiance to the country.”
He aforesaid Atiku was already running for 2019 and thinks that he will build individuals like El-Rufai casualty in his decide to rejuvenate his image.
“This obsession for power inclined him to support the rebellion against the party that manifested within the National Assembly, and is constant with obvious disrespect for the incumbent president,” the governor explicit . “Everyone is aware of that I support and can still work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari as he leads our country through powerful times.”
El-Rufai additional explicit that like everybody else, Atiku is entitled to rehabilitation, a method that usually needs coming back clean with the individuals.
“Can Alhaji Atiku explain the findings within the report of the us Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations that elaborate a pattern of wire transfers of quite USD 40m from offshore firms like Siemens into bank accounts controlled by him and one in every of his wives?” he asked. “The report particularization the Senate findings is on-line, collectively of 4 case histories of foreign corruption within the USA.”
On the topic of Atiku’s relationship with the us, intolerance had recalled that in its last interview with Obasanjo, the previous president explicit that Atiku was corrupt which there's a subsisting travel restriction on him by the us.
Atiku told Premium Times that he had so visited the us since departure workplace, to go to his family, however that they need settled.
Asked the last time he created such a visit, he said: “The reason why I forever visited the USA was attributable to my partner. She isn't any additional within the USA. thus I don’t have a compelling reason to go to the USA currently.”
“Alhaji Atiku ought to tell an improved tale of why he's avoiding the us of America,” El-Rufai aforesaid, refusing to shop for that account. “Someone as obsessed on Nigeria’s presidency as he's, ought to clear up such matters once and for all. we have a tendency to wait to ascertain however well he will thereupon.”
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