Senate Declares War on Presidency, APC Over Saraki's Continued Trial by CCT
A showdown is imminent between the Presidency and the Senate
following a failed attempt by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his
trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The Supreme Court
last Friday threw out Saraki’s appeal to stop his prosecution over
alleged false assets declaration. The lawmakers have resolved to throw
their weight behind Saraki.
The Senate may soon launch a full-scale war against the Presidency
and certain people in the All Progressives Congress (APC), who they
persistently accused of masterminding Saraki’s travails.
Saraki is
currently facing a 13- count charge of alleged corruption and false
declaration of assets. Specifically, he was accused of deliberately
manipulating the assets’s declaration form that he filed prior to his
assumption of office as the Senate President, by making anticipatory
declaration of assets.
Saraki, who once refused to honour an invitation extended to him by
the CCT, approached a Federal High Court where he lost and approached
the Court of Appeal. Again, he didn’t succeed. Eventually, he was docked
by the CCT.
He proceeded to the Supreme Court and on November 12,
2015, a panel of judges, headed by Justice John Fabiyi, suspended
further hearing on the case pending the outcome of the appeal.
Saraki had in his six grounds of appeal prayed the Supreme Court to set
aside the majority verdict of the appellate court panel delivered by
Justices Moore Adumein and Mohammed Mustapha on September 30, 2015.
But last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the CCT’s case against
Saraki should go on. The court ruled that the tribunal was properly
constituted to exercise jurisdiction over the trial.
However, the
Senate is not ready to dump its embattled president. In a statement
issued in Abuja yesterday, spokesman of the Red Chamber, Senator
Abdullahi Sabi, said lawmakers were solidly behind Saraki. He lampooned
some Senators who have been calling for his resignation.
In the
statement, Senator Sabi, who claimed that he was speaking on behalf of
the Senate, said: Following a meeting held in Abuja on Sunday by some
Senators and the wide consultations with our colleagues in which we
reviewed last Friday’s decision of the Supreme Court in the appeal on
the preliminary matters filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki, on the charges filed against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal
(CCT), we hereby resolve that from the beginning of the trial last
September, we have declared that this case is not about any fight
against corruption. It is simply a case of political vendetta. Our
position remains the same. We still believe that the case is
politically-motivated.”
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