Godsday Orubebe, a former minister of Niger Delta, urged Court Appeal of Abuja Division, on Wednesday, October 12, 2016, to set aside his conviction by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.
Signal reports that Orubebe, dissatisfied with the judgment which he referred to as perverse and a charade of justice, has filed a notice of appeal through his lawyer, Mr. Selekeowei Larry, SAN.
The CCT, headed by Justice Danladi Umar had found Orubebe guilty, on October 4, of an allegations that he falsely declared his asset in 2007.
Justice Umar insisted that there was merit in a one-count amended charge the federal government preferred against Orubebe.
The tribunal consequently ordered that the property in question should be seized by the government, referring to section 23 of the Code of Conduct Bureau & Tribunal Act.
Urging the appellate court, the former minister raised grounds the court should consider, and retract that the decision the tribunal reached against him.
He also insisted that the panel tribunal led itself astray in reaching a decision that was not supported by the prosecution’s evidence.
Orubebe insisted that the tribunal made a blunder in law with its decision “without any proof of the offence, thereby occasioning gross miscarriage of justice.”
