Lawyer Sues Buhari,Osinbajo For Assets Declaration

A lawyer and rights activist, Kabir
Akingbolu, has dragged President Muhammadu
Buhari and his vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo before a
Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over allegedly
failure to keep to their promise to Nigerians during
their electioneering campaigns to publicly declare
their assets.

Akingbolu, who initiated the suit, is contending that
by declaring their assets secretly, Buhari and
Osinbajo have violated Section 172 and Section 11
(1) and (2) of the Code of Conduct for public
officers under the Fifth Schedule to the 1999
Constitution (as amended).
Other defendants in the suit are the Attorney
General of the Federation, AGF and the Code of
Conduct Bureau, CCB.
Buhari and Osinbajo had declared their assets to
the CCB secretly, a development which drew public
condemnation, with many insisting that it was a
departure from the anti-corruption posture of the
president and his vice.
Akingbolu, is asking the court to declare that it
was mandatory for the CCB to publicly publish the
assets of Buhari and Osinbajo.
He is further praying the court to declare that the
secret declaration of assets by Buhari and Osinbajo
was unconstitutional.
He also want the court to mandate them to
publicly declare their assets in line with the Code
of Conduct for public officers under the Fifth
Schedule to the Constitution.
Akingbolu, in an affidavit in support of the suit,
averred that Buhari and Osinbajo made it
abundantly clear while canvassing for votes from
Nigerians that they would publicly declare their
assets in order to prove that they would run a
transparent government.
He further averred that under the code of conduct,
the President and the Vice President were duty as
public officers to declare their assets publicly, and
that the duo have breached the said stipulation by
not publicly declaring their assets as dictated and
mandated by the Constitution.
He added that the sad aspect of the development,
was that the CCB “has been shielding Buhari and
Osinbajo by not publicizing their purported
declaration of assets in line with the law.”
“I know as a fact as a legal practitioner that Buhari
and Osinbajo are duty bound to declare their
assets publicly and it will be in the interest of
justice, public peace and good governance to grant
the reliefs in this suit,” he averred.

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