Eniola Yekini
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has responded to the calling on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe him over corruption allegations.
According to report, a former National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ntufam Hilliard Eta, had urged the anti-graft agency and other law enforcement agencies to immediately probe and prosecute Atiku over allegations of corruption.
Reacting to the purported call in a statement issued by his media aide, Paul Ibe, The African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate described the allegations as a mere political witch-hunt.
Atiku equally recalled that the Olusegun Obasanjo administration investigated him but was left with no evidence to pursue his prosecution.
According to him, almost two decades later, different administrations controlled the machinery of the Nigerian state, yet no successive administration found it necessary to prosecute him for corruption.
He said, “When an incumbent government begins to feel politically threatened, the institutions of state suddenly become intensely interested in its opponents.
“The latest episode is the move to bring former Vice President and ADC presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, under the scrutiny of the EFCC.”