The former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar revealed that the then Chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, accused him of corruption but later came to secretly to apologize to him.
Atiku stated this in an interview with EFCC quaterly magazine ” zero tolerance”.
He said, “When he came to ask me for forgiveness, I said if you want me to forgive you, Nuhu, go to the same television stations where you said I was corrupt and say you now (have) realised that I am not corrupt.
“Then he said ‘sir, you have forgiven so many people who have offended you publicly without them going to TV stations to apologise to you’ and I said, ‘your case is different because first of all, I helped to found the EFCC’.
“I was instrumental to your appointment, so, I believe I have contributed to your development and this is how you are paying me back. In any case, he kept on apologising and I said, ‘okay, no problem. That closed the chapter’.”