The Head, Press & Public Relations of the Tribunal, Ibraheem Al-hassan told our reporter that the postponement was necessitated as a result of the planned trip of the Chairman of the Tribunal to the United States for the International Bar Conference. “There were challenges with securing visas for both the Chairman and the honourable member for them to attend the International Bar Conference in the United States. These challenges denied them the opportunity to make the trip”, he said. He added that “However, the Tribunal had already postponed the judgment to October 4th because of this trip, and when they couldn’t make it again; we decided to stick by this postponement instead of reverting to the earlier date (today).” This is the third time the Tribunal is postponing the delivery of judgment in this case. The judgement was first slated for June 30, 2016 but could not hold due to the absence of the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar and it was thus postponed to July 19 However on July 12, the Tribunal announced that the judgment had been further postponed today September 21 Orubebe was arraigned by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) at the CCT late last year for alleged false asset declaration on his plot number 2057 of Cadastral zone Asokoro, Abuja. Al-hassan said the new date (October 4th) was arrived at to give the operation of the Tribunal a smooth run as the Tribunal will be continuing with trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki the following day (October 5th). It would also be recalled that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) had earlier this month separately arraigned the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs on a six count charge bothering on circumventing the approval of some road projects while heading the Ministry]]>