Kwara Youths Protest Saraki’s Trial in Ilorin
According to Leadership Newspaper, hundreds of
kwara youths and women in Ilorin, took to the streets, protesting the
way the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has been handling the trial of
their son and Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Interestingly, the protesters
under the aegis of Concerned Kwara Youths On CCT alleged that the
tribunal’s last Thursday ruling was leaked on the social media, about
six hours before it was read by Justice Umar Danladi.
The Kwara state
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ishola Balogun-Fulani
while addressing the protesters lamented that from what has transpired
so far at the tribunal, there was no need guessing that Saraki’s trial
is a political set-up.
He told the
protesters, most of who carried placards with various inscriptions
denouncing the CCT that his party found it difficult to believe that the
judgment read by the tribunal’s chairman on Thursday had actually been
read by people on the social media as early as 4.00am, while the real
judgment was delivered at 10.30am, about six hours later.
Some of the
inscriptions on the placards read, “The judgment of CCT on Saraki is
already on the social media by 4am on the Day of Judgment by Umaru
Danladi”, “Saraki’s case is political”, “CCT has two laws, one for
Tinubu and one other Nigerians” and “Sahara Reporters based in United
States is an agent of evil.”
Balogun-Fulani,
who was flanked by other leaders of the party, said, “I sympathise with
you; I sympathise with Kwarans and I sympathise with Senate President
Bukola Saraki. It is a known fact that today in Nigeria we have two
laws. One for the average, the well-to-do and those in politics and the
other for those that have not; a law that has been used by the Code of
Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to exonerate ten governors and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu.
Today the CCT
chairman said he is not going to use that law but another one in the
constitution. You now wonder that the travails of Senator Saraki amount
to political prosecution.
“The last judgement on the CCT was already on the social media by 4 am and he delivered his own judgment by 10:30am.
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