Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, pleaded with 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.
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