Saraki should resign over CCT trial – Poll OCTOBER 21, 2015 : AGENCY REPORTER

Respondents to an online poll on PUNCH website have
demanded the resignation of Dr. Bukola Saraki as the Senate
President to answer charges of false asset declaration levelled
against him by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
The respondents participated in an online poll on PUNCH
website, www.punchng.com , asking the readers to answer the
question: Should Dr. Bukola Saraki resign as Senate President
over his alleged false assets declaration case at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal?
The survey required the participants to indicate either ‘Yes’ or
‘No’.
One thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine respondents
participated in the poll, which opened on Monday, September
28, 2015 and closed on Thursday, October 8, 2015.
Demanding the resignation of the Senate President, 1,226
respondents, representing 70 per cent of the participants
believed Saraki should resign by indicating a ‘Yes’.
On the other hand, 533 respondents, which represent 30 per
cent of the participants, are of the opinion that Saraki, a former
Presidential Adviser to Olusegun Obasanjo and the immediate
past Kwara State governor, should not resign as the Senate
President.
The Code of Conduct Bureau had dragged Saraki, who emerged
the President of the Senate in controversial circumstances on
Tuesday, June 9, before the CCT on charges bordering on false
declaration of assets, especially during his time as the Kwara
State’s helmsman between 2003 and 2011.
Saraki had battled unsuccessfully to stop his arrest and
arraignment before the tribunal through his suits before a
Federal High Court in Abuja and the Court of Appeal in the
Federal Capital Territory.
When he finally made his dramatic appearance at the CCT on
Tuesday, September 22, he pleaded not guilty to the 13 counts
filed against him before the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice
Danladi Umar, adjourned the case to October 21 and 22 for
continuation of trial.
In pleading his innocence before Justice Umar, the accused had
alleged that he was being politically-vilified for emerging the
Senate President.

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