Sunday Aborisade, Abuja
Senate President, Bukola Saraki said on
Monday that his on-going trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal will not
disturb the activities of the Senate.
Saraki, according to a statement by his
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated
this after the Tribunal Chairman, Mr. Danladi Umar announced that the
proceedings in the trial involving him will now hold on a day-to-day
basis.
The statement recalled that at the
preliminary stage of the trial, senators had always accompanied the
senate president to the tribunal each time the case came up for hearing.
But Saraki said now that the trial
proper has commenced and the Senate is in session, he would not want the
trial to affect legislative business.
He said, “I am the one on trial not the
Senate. Even though I have been overwhelmed by the solidarity displayed
by my colleagues, it is important that the work of the Senate is not
unduly affected by this process.
The senate president affirmed that the
legislative body being an institution, would not be affected by the
absence of any of the principal.
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