The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, this morning, failed to
persuade the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja to grant an
indefinite adjournment on the 13-count criminal charge that is pending
against him
The Justice Danladi Umar-led tribunal, while rejecting the
application which Saraki made through his lawyer, Mr. Mahmud Magaji,
SAN, ordered him to appear before it on November 5.
Justice Umar said the tribunal was minded to adjourn full-blown
hearing on the substantive case till next month, to enable it to
ascertain the outcome of the appeal that Saraki lodged before the Abuja
Division of the Court of Appeal.
Meantime, Saraki, who stormed the court today with 34 Senators and
50 lawyers, initially declined to mount the dock, placing reliance on
the fact that a higher court is already seized with the ‘Res’ of the
case against him.
He was eventually compelled to enter the dock by the tribunal at
exactly 10:59am, even as the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs,
SAN, urged the court to as a mark of respect for judicial hierarchy,
defer further proceeding on the matter for two weeks.
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