The
appeal by Senate President, Bukola Saraki against the jurisdiction of the Code
of Conduct Bureau (CCB), to try him over alleged false declaration of assets,
was on Monday, adjourned indefinitely by the Appeal Court, sitting in Abuja.
Senate
President, Senator Bukola Saraki Docked by Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja.
Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan
Recall
that Saraki is challenging the legal propriety of the 13-count criminal charge
the Federal Government preferred against him before the Code of Conduct
Tribunal, CCT.
He had
also gone before the appellate court to query the constitutionality of the
warrant of arrest earlier issued against him by chairman of the CCT, Justice Danladi
Umar.
Besides,
the embattled Senate President, through his team of lawyers led by a former
President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. J.B. Daudu, SAN, wanted the
higher court to ascertain whether the Justice Umar-led panel subscribed to the
appropriate legal procedure when it ordered him to mount the dock and enter his
plea to the charge despite preliminary objections against his trial.
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