CCT Discharges and Acquits Tinubu

Date: 30 November 2011

Source: Bola Tinubu Media Office

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) today discharged and acquitted Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the grounds that:

Contrary to the rules of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), the CCB had not afforded Asiwaju Tinubu an opportunity to be confronted with the complaints against him and be allowed to admit or deny before the charges were filed against him. The court noted that the opportunity to admit or deny was given to other Governors and public officers charged with violation of the Code of Conduct, but was not given to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

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 charge did not disclose a prima facie case against the accused person as there was no proof of evidence attached to the charge, and that the charges did not show that the accounts were held by the accused persons, in fact the names were names of other persons.

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Consequently, the Code of Conduct Tribunal dismissed the charges against him, as the prosecution has violated a condition precedent to preferring the charge.