I chose Yar'Adua because others are corrupt Obasanjo. Fomer President Olusegun Obasanjo said on wednesday that he chose the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as his successor because the others are corrupt. Obasanjo said one of the person who wanted to succed him in 2007 was "stinkingly corrupt" and that the only he (Obasanjo) could justify himself before man and God was to go for Yar'Adua, who he said, was the only one among the contenders then who was not corrupt. Among the prominent presidential hopefuls in the Peoples Democratic Party in 2007 were Obasanjo's deputy, Abubakar Atiku; and ex-Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili. Atiku later abandoned the PDP to to contest the Presidential election on the platform of the defunct Action Congress while Odili's ambition fizzled out with the nomination of Yar'Adua.