The Supreme Court quashed all the charges against Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, saying he had no case to answer
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Osinbajo made the remark in Abuja at a public lecture to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the National Assembly Legislative Digest, a magazine published to create awareness on parliamentary practices
Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, made the plea on Thursday in Lagos
Three years of back-and-forth allegations in court between a sitting President of the Senate and the state was not a pleasant sight to behold. Apart from the toll on the collective image of the country, it literally sets out to undo what ordinarily could have been the gains of the current democratic experience, especially given the strongly rooted assumption that the charges were trumped up to teach him some lessons for being a deviant
The meeting is coming amid plans by leaders of the Reformed-All Progressives Congress to defect to the PDP
The State Chairman of the APC, Ishola Balogun-Fulani, made this known to newsmen on Sunday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital
The President made his position known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Malam Garba Shehu, on Saturday
Saraki also laid the foundation stone of the the Second Train of the Indorama Eleme Fertilizer Plant project in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The party said the Supreme Court, by the judgment, has further reinforced the confidence of Nigerian citizens in the courage of the institution of the judiciary as the temple of justice and the last hope of the common man, particularly under an oppressive regime.
In a statement personally signed by him after the judgement of the Supreme Court, which upheld the earlier decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal discharging and acquitting him of all 18 count charge instituted against him, Saraki expressed gratitude to all Nigerians who have supported him since the case commenced three years ago.
The judgment was delivered in the early hours of Friday
The faction, led by Rev. Bunmi Olusona as Chairman, said it had in the last three months been waiting for Saraki and his co-travellers to defect.
Senator Atai Aidoko, citing Order 42 and 52, raised the issue, stating that while on her way home with her friends, the corps member was shot and rushed to Garki Hospital, Abuja, but was not treated because a police report was requested for.
Saraki, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola, said this while receiving the Amnesty International 2017/18 Report on: “The State of the World’s Human Rights,” and the organization’s report on women who survived Boko Haram, but were later maltreated, from its Country Director, Osai Ojigho, in Abuja.
Galadima said this on Thursday, contrary to the claim by Saraki that he is not member of the R-APC.
Abaribe, who was arrested by the DSS and released on bail after four days, spoke during plenary on Wednesday
Oshiomhole stated this when he led members of the National Working Committee on a visit to the Senate APC caucus in Abuja on Wednesday
Saraki said this in reaction to the formation of a new party, Reformed APC, by some aggrieved members on Wednesday, a development to which his name had been linked
Most of the known members of the new party as at press time were federal lawmakers
Saraki, who made the call in his welcome address to Senators from their end of session break, said any divided attention in view of the pending elections would not be in the interest of the country