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Leave Buhari Out Of Senator Saraki’s Trial, Presidency Cautions

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The Presidency has cautioned against linking President Muhammadu Buhari to the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
A statement by the senior special assistant to the President on media and publicity, Garba Shehu said that insinuations in some quarters that the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) are acting upon external instigation are uninformed.
Garba Shehu said that there is no place in law that the Bureau and the tribunal should take instructions from any quarters, saying that 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.”
The Presidency stressed that the government has no desire to persecute anybody even as it vowed to respect the rule of law, which is why the President is 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 are routinely dealt with by the CCB and the CCT. There are many cases like this that are going on.
“The President has sworn to an oath to protect the constitution and will not violate that oath.” [myad]

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