Bukola Saraki is using everyone he knows who is close to President Muhammadu Buhari to beg him to either directly or indirectly intervene in his corruption trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
The major problem facing the Senate President is that he is not sure of a favourable judgement at the apex court where he has filed a fresh appeal after the Court of Appeal in Abuja rejected all his pleas.
Already, those against him for disobeying his party's leaders are now ready to testify against him.
To try to prevent a situation where the evidences of massive corruption will be tendered against him at the CCT, Saraki has appealed to the Supreme Court against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which affirmed the jurisdiction of CCT to try him on 13 counts of false assets declaration.
He is praying the Supreme Court to stop his trial before the CCT pending the determination of his appeal.
Saraki raised seven grounds of appeal in his notice attached to the application for stay of proceedings, urging the Supreme Court to set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal, the entire proceedings of the CCT and the charges preferred against him before the tribunal.
His lawyer, Joseph Daudu (SAN), urged the apex court to set aside the judgment of the appeal court on the grounds that it erred in law when it affirmed the competence of the proceedings of the CCT which sat on the appellant’s case with only two members as against the three provided for in the provisions of Paragraph 15(1) of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.
Daudu also faulted the majority decision of the appeal court where it held that there was lacuna regarding the quorum of the tribunal.
He argued that the application of the Interpretation Act to hold that two out of three members of the tribunal could validly sit, “is to circumvent and reduce the number prescribed by the Constitution for the due composition of the CCT”.
Saraki's director of protocol send out text to Senators, pleading with them to follow Saraki to CCT:
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