BREAKING NEWS, Judiciary
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The Code of Conduct Tribunal insists that it has the jurisdiction to try Bukola Saraki, Senate president, over allegations of false declaration of assets
THE Code of Conduct Tribunal has insisted that it has the jurisdiction to try Bukola Saraki, Senate president over the allegations of false declaration of assets while he was governor of Kwara State.
The Tribunal stated this this on Thursday, March 24, at the hearing of the case in Abuja, because Saraki’s legal team raised an objection. Saraki’s 80-member legal team led by Kanu Agabi, SAN, and former justice minister objected that the CCT had no jurisdiction to try the case.
The federal government had charged Saraki, alleging that he made false assets declaration in his forms submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau when he was a two-term governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.
— Mar. 24, 2016 @ 3:30 GMT
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