Nigeria: Position of Igbo Leaders of Thought On Corruption Probe (III)

13 August 2015

It is a measure of the importance attached to the Code of Conduct that the oath of office prescribed for the President (and State Governor) in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution requires them to swear not only to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," but specifically to "abide by the Code of Conduct."

The importance of the Code is also affirmed by the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, cap. 56 of the Laws of the Federation 1990 edn, which provides:

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