The drama between Nigeria's number 3 citizen that is the Senate President in the person of Dr. Bukola
Saraki and the Code of Conduct Tribunal is about to unfold. He had at first
refused to appear before the tribunal saying that the charges were frivolous,
lacked merit, this one and that one, etc.
Next, he went to the Federal High
Court or was it the Court of Appeal to stop the matter from being heard but the
Court said it would not grant such an injunction and that he should simply go
and answer the charges levelled against him.
Then he went on to claim that the
quorum of 3 judges that were supposed to sit in Court were not formed.
Therefore, the 2 judges present and sitting had no jurisdiction in the matter.
In short, other excuses exist.
In the midst of all these, 2 bench warrants of
arrest have been issued twice against him. Now the D-day has come and the trial
is on course.
Dr. Saraki could have avoided all these drama
right from the onset. He should have gone to the Tribunal to answer the charges
against him if he has no hidden skeleton in his cupboard. But in meandering
about in this manner actually makes him come off as an offender is trying to evade the long arm of the law for the alleged offence he committed
in 2003. It is not called the long arm of the law for nothing.
Well, let us sit
back and watch as the two legal warriors for and against Dr. Saraki, slug it out.
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