The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribuna (CCT), Danladi Umar has insisted that he cannot restrain himself from the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as a result of constitutional constraint.
The CCT boss made this known while delivering his ruling, in another application brought before it by Saraki, urging the CCT chairman to restrain himself from continuing with the trial of the Senate President, on he grounds that he made some comments which would not guarantee the defendant/applicant (Saraki), a fair trial.
Umar noted that he would have abstained himself from the matter, but for the constraints placed upon the CCT as a special court, as provided for in the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which has not been bestowed on any other court in the country to entertain the suit, therefore, disqualifying himself would amount to striking out the case in totality.
