Senate adjourns ministerial screening for Saraki’s trial by CCT

The Senate on Tuesday decided to cancel the screening of ministerial nominees scheduled to continue on Wednesday to enable the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
Saraki is being tried by the CCT for failure to declare some of his assets while he held sway as the governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.
Saraki is being tried on a 13-count charge based on alleged falsification of assets declaration.
But a press statement issued by the Acting Clerk of the Senate, Nelson Ayewoh, late on Tuesday evening on the postponement of the Senate sitting, did not state the reason for the adjournment till Thursday.
Ayewoh in the statement said: “This is to inform all distinguished senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that the resumption of the Senate in plenary has been rescheduled from Wednesday 21st October 2015, to Thursday 22nd October, 2015.”