This will come as a huge relief for the man who is the country's third most senior politician after the president and the vice-president.

The anti-corruption agency, the EFCC, brought the charges at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in 2015.

The tribunal acquitted him last year saying that he had no case to answer but the government appealed the ruling.

Mr Saraki said that his trial was politically motivated because of his alleged presidential ambitions.