Hundreds of youths and women in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, yesterday, took to the streets, protesting the way the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has been handling the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki over alleged false declaration of assets.

The protesters, under the aegis of Concerned Youths On CCT, alleged that the tribunal's last Thursday ruling was leaked on the social media, about six hours before it was read by Justice Umar Danladi.

The state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani, while addressing the protesters, lamented that, from what has transpired so far at the tribunal, there was no need guessing that Saraki's trial is a political set-up.

He told the protesters, most of whom carried placards with various inscriptions denouncing the CCT, that his party found it difficult to believe that the judgment read by the tribunal's Chairman had actually been read by people on the social media as early as 4.00am, while the judgment was delivered at 10.30am, about six hours later.

Some of the inscriptions on the placards read, "The judgment of CCT on Saraki is already on the social media by 4am on the Day of Judgment by Umaru Danladi", "Saraki's case is political", "CCT has two laws, one for Tinubu and one other Nigerians".