The Senate President has revealed that some people who don't like him are using the Code of Conduct Bureau as a platform to persecute him.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki
The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that some people are persecuting him and using the ongoing false asset declaration trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, as an excuse.
The Senate President, on Friday in Lagos during the Social Media Week, insisted that he has no plans of resigning his position as the Senate President despite calls for him to do so because he believes that allegations brought by the CCT against him are false.
Speaking further on the CCT allegation, Saraki said: “It is not a fight against corruption; it is more about being persecuted."
The Senate President further 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.”
His case against the CCT will come up on the 10th of March as he answers a 13-count charge of false assets declaration and corruption.