Saraki defies bench warrant, absent at Code of Conduct tribunal again!

Despite the order of Code of Conduct Tribunal to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase to arrest Senate President Bukola Saraki, and bring him to the court to answer charges of false declaration of assets, Mr Saraki was again conspicuously missing at the resumption of the hearing today. Justice Danladi Umar had issued the bench warrant following the refusal of Saraki to appear before it to take plea in the 13-count charge levelled against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau. Soon after the tribunal gave the order, Saraki approached the Court of Appeal seeking an injunction to squash it. Saraki’s counsel, Mamud Magaji (SA) yesterday suggested that the senate president may be absent from today’s sitting. “We have been able to file a notice of appeal as well as stay of execution. When you have a valid notice of appeal and stay of execution, it puts the order of the court so granted in abeyance, unless and until the final determination of that content of that order that is being challenged at the Court of Appeal. That is the position of the law,” he said. More details soon. Source: The Vanguard