CCT Adjourns Saraki’s Trial To March 18.

The trial of the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has been adjourned till March 18 by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
President of the CCT, Danladi Umar adjourned the trial on Friday after the Federal Government, opposed a fresh application by Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, challenging the powers of the Attorney General of the Federation to prosecute him over the allegation brought against him.
CCT is trying Saraki for 13-count-charge bothering on falsely declaration of assets.

Saraki, in the application he filed ‎through his consortium of lawyers led by a former AGF, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, asked the Justice Danladi Umar-led Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, panel, to hands-off the 13-count charge the federal government entered against him.

He argued that the charge against him was brought in bad-faith and not in public interest. Saraki ‎maintained that the AGF did not fulfil all the condition precedents capable of conferring jurisdiction on the tribunal to try him. He therefore applied for the charge to be quashed, as well as an order discharging him.