Sen. Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's Senate President
The Nigerian Supreme Court has suspended the Code of Conduct Tribunal from proceedings and prosecution of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki. The Senate President is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over his alleged filing of false and incomplete assets during his assets declaration to the Code of Conduct Bureau in few years ago during his era as governor of Kwara State.
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This suspension of proceedings was mandated on the Code of Conduct Tribunal by the Supreme Court until its final execution of the appeal suit filed before it by the Senate President. It thus further implies that the apex court has barred the lower court from any further summon and queries against the defendant (Sen. Bukola Saraki) until the appeal he filed with the Supreme Court is duly concluded.
However, in compliance with the judgement of the apex court, the prosecuting lawyer affirmed his commitment to respect the ruling of the court. He had even moved to sign an undertaking which would completely refrain the CCT from any action of direct or indirect prosecution of the defender until when the Supreme Court concludes the appeal suit as filed before it by the defendant. But, the prosecutor however advised that the apex court should encourage speedy hearing, because delay of such hearing will lead to the accused person's continuous delay of trial at the CCT.
It can be recalled that earlier on in last month, the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja, rejected the appeal filed by the Senate President to uphold his prayers for stay of proceedings at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Thereafter, it reversed the Senate President and his team of lawyers to the CCT which subsequently fixed a new date and another trial was held. During that trial at CCT, the defendant legal team abandoned the proceedings and stormed out of the court room in a scenario they titled 'judicial rascality' by CCT prosecutors. The Senate president after the abandonment by his lawyers, prayed the court to allow him a period of one month to enable him constitute another team of legal representatives. But the CCT chairman rejected his prayers in partial by granting him a period of one week to reconstitute his team of lawyers for subsequent hearings.
On the whole, the judgement as delivered in favour of Senate President today, has resolved all issues bordering the reorganizing of new legal team and other proceedings at the lower court until at such period where all suits at the Supreme Court are concluded. Such conclusion at the apex court would determine the next step to be taken by the CCT in further proceedings.
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