Saraki’s Acquittal: Judiciary Is Functioning – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari, has commended the Judiciary for its commitment to ensuring that justice prevails despite various challenges.

Buhari made this statement in the wake of the acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Supreme Court of wrong declaration of assets.

President Buhari said, in a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, that the judicial system is truly working irrespective of the challenges it is facing.

He added that the Judiciary is important to any democratic society and no one should be allowed to pervert or break it.

“I have seen many instances where individuals and groups seek the destruction of the judicial institution in the foolish thinking of saving their skin, instead of going through the painstaking process of establishing their innocence,”

“In the case of the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, I have seen him take the tortuous path of using the judicial process.

“He persevered, and in the end, the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, says he is not guilty as charged.

“This is what I have done in the three elections in which I was cheated out, before God made it possible for me to come here the fourth time I ran for the office.” he said.

The president said the Senate president’s journey from the lowest to the highest court of the land provides an important example for Nigerians to emulate

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