Posted on: 10:57 Fri, 26 Feb 2016



Senate President Bukola Saraki has
said that his ongoing false assets
declaration trial at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is the
handiwork of powerful people who
were unhappy with his emergence
as Senate President.

While speaking at the Social Media
Week in Oniru Lagos, Saraki stated
that his trial was an act of
persecution adding that the charges
has nothing to do with corruption.

Saraki said: “We are public
servants and you must fill your
asset declaration form when you
get in office and I did mine 13
years ago. The charges have
nothing to do with corruption or
money being stolen anywhere and
that is why at the end of the day, I
will have my day in court. Because
it is not about corruption.

“I don’t understand how the same
organisation that cleared my asset
declaration to be proper in 2004,
2009 and 2011 can suddenly wake
up and say that my record is
faulted. “It is not a fight against
corruption, it is more about being
persecuted”.

It will be recalled that Saraki was
on September 11, 2015 indicted by
the CCT. Among other charges filed
against him was false declaration
of assets and possession of assets
beyond his official earnings and
operation of foreign accounts in
contravention of the law as a
public officer during his tenure as
Kwara State Governor in
2003-2011.