President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the senate Senate President, Alhaji
Bukola Saraki to defend himself before the Code of Conduct Bureau as required
by law.
The President said in a statement that Saraki’s ongoing trial by the CCT was purely judicial and a constitutional issue.
In a statement in Abuja, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, described the attempt to link Buhari to Saraki’s trial as unacceptable.
The statement also frowned at the views to the effect that the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the CCT could only act upon external instigation.
The statement said there is no place in law that the Bureau and the tribunal should take instructions from any quarters.
“As an independent institution equal to any superior court of record, the tribunal is set up by the Constitution to determine the issue of default, false declaration or forgery in assets declaration.
This, therefore, is purely a judicial process and has nothing to do with the presidency.
If anyone has an axe to grind with what they are doing, they should do it in a judicial manner by challenging those actions in a proper court of law.
Let them hire a good team of lawyers to prove their innocence.
Government has no desire to persecute anybody,’’ the statement stated.
It said that, “President Buhari has vowed to respect the rule of law and this is what he is doing by staying out of this matter. He has said times without number that the war against corruption has no sacred cows.
“Even if the President wants to help, there is no way he can do anything. Is he going to ask the judge to stop the trial? It is purely a judicial process, the type of which is routinely dealt with by the CCB and the CCT. There are many cases like this that are going on,’’ the statement maintained.
Tthe statement explained that the President has sworn to an oath to protect the constitution and will not violate that oath.
The President said in a statement that Saraki’s ongoing trial by the CCT was purely judicial and a constitutional issue.
In a statement in Abuja, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, described the attempt to link Buhari to Saraki’s trial as unacceptable.
The statement also frowned at the views to the effect that the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the CCT could only act upon external instigation.
The statement said there is no place in law that the Bureau and the tribunal should take instructions from any quarters.
“As an independent institution equal to any superior court of record, the tribunal is set up by the Constitution to determine the issue of default, false declaration or forgery in assets declaration.
This, therefore, is purely a judicial process and has nothing to do with the presidency.
If anyone has an axe to grind with what they are doing, they should do it in a judicial manner by challenging those actions in a proper court of law.
Let them hire a good team of lawyers to prove their innocence.
Government has no desire to persecute anybody,’’ the statement stated.
It said that, “President Buhari has vowed to respect the rule of law and this is what he is doing by staying out of this matter. He has said times without number that the war against corruption has no sacred cows.
“Even if the President wants to help, there is no way he can do anything. Is he going to ask the judge to stop the trial? It is purely a judicial process, the type of which is routinely dealt with by the CCB and the CCT. There are many cases like this that are going on,’’ the statement maintained.
Tthe statement explained that the President has sworn to an oath to protect the constitution and will not violate that oath.
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