Nigeria, July 4 -- Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has directed his lawyers to appeal a ruling of the Kwara State High Court rejecting his objection to the court's jurisdiction in a criminal defamation and cyberbullying case instituted by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

According to a statement issued on Friday by Abdulganiyu Abdulqadir, a press officer on local matters at the Abubakar Bukola Saraki Media Office, the decision followed proceedings before Justice M. O. Folorunso of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin.

Mr Abdulqadir said the court declined the prosecution's request for a bench warrant against Mr Saraki but also rejected the defence's argument that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the case.

"Dr Saraki has subseq...