False Asset Trial: Saraki persevered, depended on judiciary to prove his innocence – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday reacted to the Supreme Court’s acquittal of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, saying the nation’s judicial system is working despite the challenges at hand.

He said no one should be allowed to undermine or break the judicial system.

Buhari said this in a statement made available to journalists by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

The President noted that Saraki took what he described as the tortuous path of using the judicial process and persevered until the highest court in the land pronounced him not guilty.

Buhari recalled that he himself took the same path in the three elections during which he claimed he was rigged out before finally making it at the fourth attempt.

The President said, “I have seen many instances where individuals and groups seek the destruction of the judicial institution in the foolish thinking of saving their skin, instead of going through the painstaking process of establishing their innocence.

“In the case of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, I have seen him take the tortuous path of using the judicial process.

“He persevered, and in the end, the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, says he is not guilty as charged.

“This is what I have done in the three elections in which I was cheated out before God made it possible for me to come here the fourth time I ran for the office.”

The President said Saraki’s journey from the lowest to the highest court of the land provided an important example for Nigerians to emulate.