Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senators Melaye and Sani Yerima

Senator Bukola Saraki, the Senate President will not be appearing at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja on Friday.

This evening, an Abuja High Court granted an injunction to stop the tribunal from sitting on the case.

The Vanguard online reported that in a chamber ruling this evening, Justice Ahmed Mohammed summoned the Federal Minist‎ry of Justice, Chairman of the CCB and Chairman of the Code of Conduct tribunal, CCT, to appear before the high court on September 21 to show cause why Saraki should be prosecuted over the alleged offence.

Equally summoned to appear before the court was the deputy director in the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. M.S. Hassan, who signed the charge against Saraki.

The court made the orders aft‎er it heard an ex-parte application that was filed and moved by Saraki through his lawyer Mr. Mahmud Magaji, SAN.

The Code of Conduct Bureau has filed a 13-count charge against Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, alleging
that Saraki made false declaration of his assets.

The Deputy Director in the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, M.S.Hassan, filed the charges against Saraki on September 11.

Saraki’s point of contention is that the case could not go on, without a substantive Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in place.

President Buhari has promised to unveil his cabinet before the end of this month.

The case filed at the Code of Conduct Tribunal is only one of the many battles Saraki is contending with, since his emergence as senate president on 9 June.

His wife, Toyin, is under probe by the EFCC for money laundering, arising from transactions done when Saraki was governor in the central Nigerian state of Kwara from May 2003 to 2011.

Today, the EFCC declared a former staff of Societe General Bank of Nigeria, Kennedy Izuagbe wanted over an alleged N3.6billion fraud. Izuagbe is the CEO of Carlisle Properties Limited, a company with prominent mention in the charge levelled against Saraki by CCB, with regards to the acquisition of some property in ikoyi, Lagos, while in office.