S-Court decides Saraki’s fate today

 

The   Supreme Court will today, deliver judgment on the appeal seeking to quash the 13-count charge the Federal Government filed against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Bureau.
The judgment will be delivered by a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed.
The government had, in the charge it filed before the CCT, alleged that Saraki tampered with the assets declaration form he filled prior to his emergence as the Senate President.
He was said to have  deliberately manipulated the assets declaration form by making anticipatory declarations.

Aside the allegation that he operated a foreign bank account while in office as a public servant,  Saraki was also accused of acquiring wealth  beyond his legitimate earnings.
All the offences contained in the charge were said to have been committed while Saraki held sway as the governor of Kwara State.