The presidential candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has hinted that he may
not visit the United States of America any time soon.
“What will I even go to do in
America,” Atiku queried during an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice
of America.
Atiku was Nigeria’s vice
president between 1999 and 2007 under the administration of Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo.
Atiku who floored other 12
aspirants to pick the PDP’s presidential ticket in Port Harcourt, is being
dogged by allegations of corruption.
Recall that the former Vice
President and his fourth wife Jennifer Douglas, an American citizen, were
allegedly indicted in 2010 in a 328-page American Senate committee report for
transferring over $40 million “suspect funds” to America from offshore accounts
between 2002 and 2008.
The report had said, “Ms Douglas
helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United
States, including at least $1.7 million in bribe payments from Siemens AG, a
German corporation, and over $38 million from little known offshore
corporations, primarily LetsGo Ltd. Inc., Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd.,
and Sima Holding Ltd.”
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