The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has rejected the decision of Justice Abdulkadir Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja, refusing to deliver his judgment in the suit filed by him to enforce his fundamental rights.

The judge had withheld his judgment last Tuesday in the case and announced his withdrawal on the grounds that reports by some on-line media, Sahara Reporters and Naij.com alleged that he had been bribed by the Senate President.

Saraki, in a protest letter dated March 22, 2016, by his lawyer, Prince Ajibola Oluyede, to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, noted that although he sympathised with the judge, the interest of justice would only be served if the judgment was delivered.

Oluyede, while speaking with journalists on Wednesday, after the submission of the letter to the CJ, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of being behind the publications, which he said, were intended to intimidate the judge.

“It is our argument in the suit that the Code of Conduct Tribunal cannot act independently the way it is currently constituted because we believe Its Chairman, Danladi Umar, who is currently under investigation by the EFCC, cannot be independent in deciding a case being prosecuted before him by the EFCC.

“We have also contented that the EFCC, by admitting that the investigation of the case against our client was done by a special task force, as against the requirement by the provision in Schedule 3 of the Constitution, has usurped the exclusive duties of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). It is on that basis we argued that our client cannot get justice under the current arrangement and asked the court to quash the charge,” Oluyede said.