WITHIN NIGERIA highlights one significant event that molded April 24 in the history of this nation, Nigeria in an effort to raise awareness and educate our readers for the preservance of our memories as deserving citizens.
On this day, April 24 in 2007, former Governor of Lagos State and leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was docked before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, on allegations that he operated 10 foreign accounts while in office between 1999 and 2007.
According to reports, the tribunal dismissed the case against former Lagos state governor based on arguments that the bureau did not establish a prima facie case and also engaged in abuse of process in filing the charges against him.
Tinubu was accused of operating 10 foreign accounts during his tenure as governor between 1999 and 2007 in the charges filed against him by CCB at the tribunal.
But the three-man panel of the Tribunal dismissed the case at the second appearance of the former governor at the court as it declared that “there is no significant basis to proceed against Tinubu as the charges were “defective and shoddy.”
The tribunal also said that the prosecution abused the process of court by not seeking leave of the Tribunal to file two additional counts and that the filing of two sets of charges simultaneously constitutes an abuse of process.
The Chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar also noted that the charges did not disclose a prima facie case against the accused person as there was no proof of evidence attached to the charge.
