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SUF Asks Saraki To Step Aside Over CCT Trial by Nobody: 11:08am On Feb 06, 2016 |
Senate Unity Forum, on Friday asked Dr. Bukola Saraki to step aside as Senate President. The group, following Friday’s Supreme Court judgement on the trial of the Senate President at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, said that Saraki must resign as the leader of the upper chamber. The SUF, which supported Senator Ahmed Lawan, during the Senate presidential election in June last year, said a person answering criminal charges could not lead the Senate. The anti-Saraki senators demanded the immediate resignation of Senate President so that he could concentrate on his trial at the CCT. The Supreme Court had on Friday dismissed the appeal by the Senate President, challenging the propriety of his trial on charges of false assets declaration preferred against him at the CCT. A seven-man panel of the apex court presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, had unanimously ruled that Saraki’s appeal against the jurisdiction of the CCT and the competence of the charges, lacked merit. Justice Walter Onnoghen, who delivered the lead judgement, dismissed all Saraki’s seven grounds of appeal, affirming that the charges instituted against him were valid and that the tribunal was validly constituted with requisite jurisdiction to try him. Reacting to the judgement, the anti-Saraki senators under the aegis of the SUF, said Saraki must relinquish the senate presidency so that he could concentrate on his trial at the CCT. The All Progressives Congress leaders had in June 2015 supported Lawan for the Senate Presidency, but Saraki, with the support of some APC senators and all their colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party emerged as the Senate President. The crisis that followed the election of Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, had initially stalled the emergence of other leaders of the Senate. The crisis seemed to be over following the composition of the senate committees and the appointment of members of the Lawan group to head some of them. But the spokesperson for the SUF, Senator Kabir Marafa, in an interview in Abuja, said that Saraki must step aside as the Senate President. He explained that Saraki was free to return as a presiding officer after his case at the CCT. He noted that the image of the Senate and the entire senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would continue to be battered in the public view if Saraki continues to preside over the affairs of the red chamber while answering criminal charges at the courts. Marafa said, “We really pity Senator Bukola Saraki, but I think this issue has dragged for too long. We have indulged him thus far because we believe that he is presumed innocent until otherwise decided by a competent court of law. “Now that the Supreme Court has decided that he has a case to answer, I think that the best thing for Senator Saraki is to resign in order to have enough time and full concentration to face his trial. https://www.today.ng/news/national/75916/suf-asks-saraki-to-step-aside-over-cct-trial |
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