Leadership / Nigeria: The Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and two others will today appear at a high court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, over alleged forgery of the Senate order paper for the conduct of the election that brought them into office.
Saraki and Ekweremadu are being tried alongside Abubakar Maikasuwa and Benedict Efeturi before the court.
All the accused persons have pleaded not guilty to the charges and have been granted bail by the court.
Also at the weekend, founder, Policing Nigeria Awareness Initiative (PNAI), Chief Egbe Akparakwu Adun, called on President Muhammadu Buhari, attorney general of the federation and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, to investigate the alleged forgery of a court order leading to the suspension of his accounts.
Adun’s accounts with Fidelity Bank Plc were allegedly suspended following instructions from the police and supported with the alleged forged court order.
Justice G.O. Kolawole had granted a court order to the police to instruct some banks to freeze accounts belonging to certain individuals pending the outcome of its investigation.
The court order followed an application dated May 13 and filed on May 14 by the police, asking the court to grant power to the inspector-general of police to direct banks shown in the schedule to supply any information and to produce the account opening document, the statement of account of certain individuals and also to stop all actions and payments operations or transactions with those people who own the accounts.
Adun, however, alleged that the police had gone ahead to smuggle additional eight accounts, some of which belonged to him, into the forged version of the order.
