A former Nigerian senator, Adamu Bulkachuwa, who confessed to influencing his retired Appeal Court justice wife’s decisions, has approached the court to stop his possible investigation and arrest.
The former senator, 83, an All Progressives Congress senator between June 2019 and June 2023, boasted about how he, on different occasions, influenced his wife’s decisions to the advantage of many of his colleagues in the Senate. In the wake of the outrage that trailed the revelation, the Nigerian Bar Association called on the police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to investigate Mr Bulkachuwa.
He listed the Federation’s Attorney General, the National Assembly Clerk, the State Security Service , the ICPC, and Nigeria Police Force as defendants.In the suit filed on 3 July, the senator sought a “judicial interpretation of Section 1 of the Legislative Houses Act 2017, which confers immunity on him from any civil or criminal litigation in respect of any utterance he makes on the floor of the Senate in his capacity as a serving Senator.
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