The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Hamma Misau has disclosed that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s case at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, was dead, stressing that Saraki is now working towards 2019.
Misau made the disclosure yesterday while reacting to a report entitled “Ndume, Adamu, Ekweremadu eye Saraki’s seat.”
Saraki is facing trial on a 13-count charge of false declaration of assets while he was the governor of Kwara State. The trial resumes tomorrow after it was initially adjourned.
But Misau in his reaction said Saraki could not be edged out of the Senate on the basis of his trial at the CCT because he is in firm control.
“Saraki’s camp is very powerful and even if he is going, he will be the one to determine who succeeds him. We, in his camp, are not thinking of Saraki going, we are thinking of 2019 when he will emerge for the second time and consolidate on the legislative works he is doing. Our thinking is beyond this tenure because of his performance.
“His case at the CCT is political because even those who are with serious cases are moving freely around the country. Saraki’s case is not embezzlement or misappropriation of funds. His is a case of under or over declaration of assets.
“As you know, it is an old case brought forward to pull him down. At what time did they realise that he committed this offence? He was at the Senate in 2011, without immunity, and they didn’t come up with it. Why now when he is the Senate president? But whatever it may be, it is a dead issue,” he said.
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