UPDATE: CCT adjourns Senate President Bukola Saraki’s trial

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT,
sitting in Abuja, today adjourned the
trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki and all pending cases this
week and within July and August till
September.

The tribunal had originally fixed
Wednesday, July 13, to deliver ruling on a fresh application seeking to disqualify its Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar, from presiding over Saraki’s trial.

However, the CCT, via a statement by the Head of its Press & Public
Relations Department, Mr. Ibraheem
Al-hassan, said it has adjourned all
sittings scheduled for this week and
those to come within July and August, till the end of recess to be
embarked by the Tribunal’s Judges
soon.

Justice Umar however assured
litigants currently with cases before
the court, that they would be given
new dates at the end of the vacation
in September.