The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has formally requested the police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to probe and prosecute former senator Adamu Bulkachuwa for the perversion of justice.
Bulkachuwa had made a confession of influencing the decisions of his wife, Zainab Bulkachuwa, while she was serving as the President of the Court of Appeal.
Bulkachuwa, an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator between June 2015 and June 2023, confessed on Saturday, boasting about how he, on different occasions, influenced his wife’s decisions to the advantage of many of his colleagues in the Senate.
Bulkachuwa confessed during the valedictory session of the 9th session, which was held on Saturday.
The video clip, which emerged on the Internet on Monday, showed Bulkachuwa, who failed to secure a re-election to the Senate, saying to his colleagues, “I look at faces in this chamber whom have come to me and sought for my help when my wife was the President of the Court of Appeal.”
Then Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who presided over the valedictory proceedings, shocked by the comments, had to interrupt the submissions of the 83-year-old.
But Mr Bulkachuwa defiantly expressed his concluding thoughts on the matter before conceding to Lawan’s call on him to desist.
Concluding his remarks, the former senator said, “And I must thank particularly, my wife, whose freedom and independence I encroached upon while she was in office, and she has been very tolerant and accepted my encroachment, and extended her help to my colleagues…”
Reacting to the confession, NBA president, Yakubu Maikyau, had ealier, called for the probe and prosecution of Bulkachuwa by the ICPC and the police.
Maikyau on Thursday, said in a new statement that he had kept his vow to formally write to the ICPC and the Inspector-General of Police to take up the case against the former senator.
He said “further to my Statement of 14 June 2023, I wish to inform you that I have, today, written letters to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), requesting for the immediate investigation and prosecution of Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa for the admissions/confessions he made in his valedictory remarks.”
Maikyau, who promised to give updates “on further developments in the matter,” restated NBA’s avowed commitment to “continue with our fight for the enthronement of the rule of law and the defence of the integrity and independence of the Judiciary in Nigeria.”
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