CCB: Ilorin Emirate Backs Saraki

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The Ilorin Emirate Descendant Progressive Union (IEDPU) has described the ongoing travails of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal as purely politically motivated.

Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin on the recent visit of the body to Senator Saraki at the National Assembly complex, Abuja, the National President of the IEDPU, Alhaji Abdulhamid Adi wondered why the Code of Conduct Bureau failed to raise any issue concerning the Senate President’s asset declaration forms since 2003.

According to him, the twelve year interval to unearth the alleged  issue by the Code of Conduct Bureau and the way the Code of Conduct Tribunal is handling the issue is suspicious.

” I see it more or less a political persecution. It is purely political. Maybe there are some political opponents that are trying to get at him,”he said.

Alhaji Adi urged the CCB not to be used to achieve certain political gain but do its  jobs without external influence.

The IEDPU President who pointed out that  Senator Saraki was the first son of the Ilorin Emirate and Kwara State in general to clinch the coveted position expressed solidarity with the Turaki of Ilorin.

According to him, ” we believe he will come out of it. You are presumed innocent until proven otherwise”.

Alhaji Adi added that members of the IEDPU across the country were mobilised in the solidarity visit to the Senate President to present a position paper on issues affecting the Ilorin Emirate and Kwara State at large which need his intervention.