Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has been discharged and acquitted of the charges of false asset declaration by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, against him.
According to him, the testimonies of the four witnesses presented were unreliable as they had been discredited.
The Senate President had, on May 4, sought the permission to file a no case submission, a situation which indicated that the tribunal should dismiss the case against him.
The request followed the closing of the case after the prosecution, Rotimi Jacobs, called its final witness.
It would be recalled that the case was started in 2015 when the Senate President was accused of false declaration of assets.
In the 13-count charge against Saraki, the government accused him of, among other offences, making anticipatory declaration of assets and false declaration of assets in the form he filled as governor of Kwara State.
In charge number ABT/01/15, dated September 11 and filed before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, he was said to have violated sections of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.
He was also said to have breached Section 2 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act and punishable under paragraph 9 of the said Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.
But in his response, in a statement, Saraki said it was “Simply a pure malicious and politically motivated prosecution aimed at undermining the person and office of the Senate President.”
“We therefore conclude that this is not an anti-corruption driven case and cannot be part of the moves aimed at fighting corruption,” he added.
