Powerful People Are Behind My Trial At CCT – Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that his ongoing false assets declaration trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is the handiwork of powerful people who were unhappy with his emergence as Senate President.

While speaking at the Social Media Week in Oniru Lagos, Saraki stated that his trial was an act of persecution adding that the charges has nothing to do with corruption.

Saraki said: “We are public servants and you must fill your asset declaration form when you get in office and I did mine 13 years ago. The charges have nothing to do with corruption or money being stolen anywhere and that is why at the end of the day, I will have my day in court. Because it is not about corruption.

“I don’t understand how the same organisation that cleared my asset declaration to be proper in 2004, 2009 and 2011 can suddenly wake up and say that my record is faulted. “It is not a fight against corruption, it is more about being persecuted”.

It will be recalled that Saraki was on September 11, 2015 indicted by the CCT. Among other charges filed against him was false declaration of assets and possession of assets beyond his official earnings and operation of foreign accounts in contravention of the law as a public officer during his tenure as Kwara State Governor in 2003-2011.