Former Vice President presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party  (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said no amount of blackmail and ill-motivated  allegations by his opponents can deter him from contesting the PDP presidential  primaries against incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. Atiku, who returned to Abuja early this morning from London, told reporters at  the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, that he is fully ready for the  primaries and confident of the outcome. He noted that the current smear campaigns are intended to deter and distract him on his mission to tackle the challenges of weak infrastructure, collapsed  industries, unemployment, poverty and hunger.

Reacting to the re-worked allegations of sleaze against him, the PDP  presidential aspirant maintained that he is ready for anybody wanting to  investigate him. He said if he could survive the most intensive and ferocious allegations in the past under the most vindictive President, he couldn’t be perturbed this time around when his political opponents are trying the same dirty tricks. He said he is the most investigated politician and he came out clean.

The former Vice President said he is ready for the EFCC and that if their past  efforts to bring him down didn’t succeed, criminal wrong doing would not be found against him this time.According to him, the timing of the current smear campaign suggests that his  opponents are scared of his competence and the quality of his programmes to  tackle the basic challenges facing Nigeria such as deficient infrastructure,  unemployment, hunger, declining quality of education and other social crises.