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The Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the
Senate president Bukola Saraki’s appeal to stop his trial
at the Court of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Justice Ibrahim Baba held that the court lacks the
jurisdiction to hear the application.
This is the fourth court Saraki has run to since the
tribunal began his arraignment.
An appeal court in Abuja had dismissed a similar
petition last month and the Supreme Court has got a
file from Saraki’s lawyers seeking to declare that the
CCT cannot continue with the case, given all kinds of
cited technicalities.
The Senate president is currently facing trial at the
CCT following a 13-count charge brought against him
of alleged corruption and false declaration of assets in
2003.
Drama happened at Saraki’s hearing yesterday as
lawyers to the Senate leader walked out on the two-
man panel of the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja in
protest against a ruling that the trial of the helmsman of
the National Assembly must continue despite his appeal
against the judgment of the Court of Appeal which
affirmed the jurisdiction of the tribunal to entertain the
case.
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