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”The Outcome Gladdens My Heart. God Has Vindicated Me” – Bukola Saraki

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3 years ago

July 3, 2022

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This morning, the Supreme court upheld the appeal of Senate President Bukola Saraki and discharged him of the remaining three charges against him in the case of false declaration of assets.

The court upheld the appeal in a lead judgment delivered by Justice Census Nweze on Friday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Saraki in a statement released this afternoon, says he is elated by the ruling. Read the statement below

At the end of a tortuous journey of 1018 Days counting from September 22, 2015, when the case began at the Tribunal, I am happy that I have been vindicated.

The Supreme Court has affirmed that there is no evidence of a false declaration of assets. The court also observed that certain agents took over the responsibility of the Code of Conduct Bureau in this trial, and one can infer that this was done towards a pre-determined end.

This outcome has gladdened my heart and further strengthened my belief in this country and as well as my faith in Almighty Allah, who is the righter of all wrongs.

God has vindicated me today before the judgment of man, and I am most thankful and humbled at His grace and infinite mercies.

Through it all, I refused to be shaken, knowing, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, that the arch of the moral universe may be long, but it bends towards justice. I knew the day would come when justice would prevail and I would be exonerated.

I have always believed in the infallibility of our Judiciary, secure in the knowledge that our courts – the last refuge of the oppressed – would never condemn the innocent. This outcome is also a vindication of my belief in the rule of law.

As I said in my first appearance at the CCT, this is a politically motivated case. The case was trumped up in the first instance because of my emergence as the President of the Senate against the wishes of certain forces.

Ordinarily, I doubt anyone would be interested in the asset declaration form I filled over 15 years ago.