Judge disqualifies self from Saraki’s trial

                          
A judgment in the case of enforcement of fundamental human rights instituted by the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, yesterday, disqualified self from passing the judgement.
Justice Abdulkadir Kafarati of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja said he was no longer competence to deliver the judgement in view of allegations leveled against him.

The judge refusal to give judgment in the case was the ground that an online medium, the Sahara Reporters had made a wild allegation against him in respect of the case for being compromised by Saraki to the tune of N2 billion to give judgement in his favour.

Kafarati added that Sahara Reporters quoted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as its source of information and that the EFCC source also confirmed to the Sahara Reporters that the said N2bn from Saraki had been found in his bank account.
Kafarati said that the online medium publication was not only condemnable having been so biased against him, but was also malicious and unwarranted.
“It’s only here in Nigeria that people just wake up and start assassinating the character of their fellow beings wickedly and unjustly simply because there are no strong laws to take care of such people ”

In the instance case, I am already caught in between two devils because any attempt to give the judgment in this matter, even though it is ready for today, but the attempt can be used by the wicked people to justify their malicious publication against my person.
“I was even called a high level corrupt Judge and this is very unfortunate that a publication from a medium that is supposed to be objective was dished out in the most reckless manner”.
“I regard them as people without conscience who derive pleasure in publishing what they know that is not true simply because they wanted to assassinate a character”.

“In view of this grievous allegation, even though my judgment in the matter is ready, I have no option than to disqualify myself from proceeding to deliver the judgment because the malicious publication had already polluted the minds of the general publication”.
“So I hereby disqualify myself from  this case and the case file shall be returned to the Chief Judge Justice Ibrahim Auta for possible re assignment to another Judge”.
Saraki through his lawyer Mr. Raphael Oluyede claimed in the suit that he cannot get justice from the CCT chairman, Mr. Danladi Umar who is being investigated by EFCC and who is been used by the same EFCC and its lawyer to prosecute him.