Posted on: 09:12 Thu, 24 Mar 2016



Embattled Senate President, Dr.
Bukola Saraki, yesterday, begged
Justice Abdul Kafarati of the
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja
to go ahead and deliver judgement
on the suit challenging his trial
before the Code of Conduct
Tribunal, CCT.

This came on a day the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, distanced itself from the
decision of Justice Kafarati to
decline ruling in the fundamental
human rights enforcement case
brought before him by Senate
President.

Justice Kafarati had on Tuesday,
disqualified himself from the
matter which was originally
scheduled for judgement, owing to
bribery allegation levelled against
him by two online media outlets.

However, Saraki, yesterday, said he
was dissatisfied that the judge was
blackmailed by his enemies to
hands off the suit that was ripe for
judgement.

In a protest letter, dated March 22,
which he filed before the Chief
Judge of the High Court, Justice
Ibrahim Auta, Saraki, through his
lawyer, Prince Ajibola Oluyede,
insisted that though he had
sympathy for the judge, the interest
of justice would only be served if
the judgement was delivered.

Oluyede, while speaking with
journalists after the submission of
the letter to the Chief Judge,
yesterday, alleged that EFCC was
the brain behind the publications
which he said were intended to
intimidate the judge.

Meanwhile, the EFCC has distanced
itself from the decision by Justice
Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High
Court, Abuja, to decline ruling in
the fundamental human rights
enforcement case brought before
him by Senate President, Bukola
Saraki.

Spokesman of the agency, Mr.
Wilson Uwujaren, said last night
that the commission had no idea of
the source of the information as it
did not give out same at any time.