Senate President Bukola Saraki is delighted after the Supreme Court freed him of the charges of false asset declaration brought against him by the Federal government.
Saraki, who had been involved in a series of court cases for almost three years, was finally discharged of all the charges by a five-man panel of judges led by Justices Justice Centus Nweze on Friday in Abuja.
“At the end of a tortuous journey of 1,018 Days counting from September 22, 2015, when the case began at the Tribunal, I am happy that I have been vindicated,” he said after the judgement.
The Senate President added, “The Supreme Court has affirmed that there is no evidence of false declaration of assets. The court also observed that certain agents took over the responsibility of the Code of Conduct Bureau in this trial, and one can infer that this was done towards a pre-determined end.”
