Court of Appeal dismisses Saraki's appeal.

The Federal Court of Appeal in Abuja has thrown out the suit filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki challenging the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal to try him for corruption. The court sat on Friday Morning after adjourning his case indefinitely. At the resumed hearing, the court dismissed all five issues raised by Senate President before it. The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal delivered the judgment in the appeal seeking to dismiss the 13-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President at the CCT.

Saraki who is facing a 13 count of false asset declaration when he was governor of Kwara state appealed to the court to stop his arrest by the Police and stay proceedings before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The Court of Appeal and the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, in two separate rulings, had refused the ex-parte applications brought by the Senate President seeking to stop his arrest by the Police and stay proceedings before the Code of Conduct Tribunal over alleged false assets declaration.

Saraki had wanted the Federal High Court to stop the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal from prosecuting him on the ground that it is only the Attorney General of the Federation that has the power to initiate criminal proceedings against him. Saraki was charged before the Code Of Conduct Tribunal, CCT to answer to allegations of corruption leveled against him by the conduct bureau.

He pled not guilty to all 13 charges leveled against him by the Conduct Bureau describing them as false and frivolous adding that charges were calculated to rubbish him. The Tribunal also adjourned Saraki’s trial till November 5th and 6th.