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SUPREME COURT ACQUIT SENATE PRESIDENT, BUKOLA SARAKI OF ALL CHARGES

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The supreme court, sitted in the FCT Abuja has acquitted the senate president of all crimes on Friday after a hearing in the court.



The court agreed that all those who have knowledge of facts were not called to testified in the matter and held that those who tendered documentary evidence against Saraki during the trial were not makers of the document, hence, their evidence on the documents were hearsay and lacked probative value.

Justice Nweze the ruled that there was no basis for the Court of Appeal to have asked Saraki to defend himself on the three charges, having found the entire evidence of the prosecution as a product of hearsay, He added that the action of the Court of Appeal amounted to forensic summersault and capable of making Ill of jurisprudence.

The court dismissed the entire 18 charges brought against Saraki by the Federal Government and consequently discharged and acquitted the Senate President accordingly.

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