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The former CJN will face trial over alleged false declaration of assets.
The lead counsel argued that the CJN was not properly served with the charges and summons personally, but through his personal assistant.
Senate President Bukola Saraki was treated to a hero’s welcome in Kwara State on Tuesday.
Senate President Bukola Saraki has expressed his relief at beating the Code of Conduct Tribunal asset declaration charges.
A five-man panel upheld Saraki’s appeal of Friday, declaring the evidence tendered by prosecution as hearsay.
Saraki was alleged to have lied about his assets.
The former minister is more popularly known for disrupting the declaration of the results of the last general elections at the national collation centre of the 2015 presidential election last year.
Many say there would be no need to accord respect to “corrupt” elected officials in a Nigeria “ruled” by a leader who “belongs to nobody.”