Justice Jamil Tukur of the Court of Appeal has ordered the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) within the 2019 elections, Ambrose Owuru, to pay a nice of N40 million for submitting a swimsuit to stop the inauguration of president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29. Delivering judgment at present May 25, Justice Tukur who learn the lead judgment of a three-member panel of the court, held that Owuru dedicated a gross abuse of the court course of by submitting a frivolous, vexatious and aggravating swimsuit to provoke the respondents. In the swimsuit marked CA/CV/259/2023 and filed in April, Owuru challenged the end result of the 2019 elections and requested the court to declare the presidents seat vacant and swear him in because the genuine winner. He prayed the court to prohibit President Muhammadu Buhari, Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), from going forward with Tinubus inauguration. He argued that he was the winner of the 2019 presidential election and had not spent his tenure. He maintained that President Buhari has been usurping his tenure of workplace since 2019 as a result of the Supreme court has not decided his petition difficult the elections final result. In its ruling, the court held that Owuru’s grievances in opposition to the 2019 presidential election weren’t solely unusual however uncalled for as a result of that they had been pursued up to the supreme court and had been dismissed for need of benefit. The enchantment court held that Owurus bid to resuscitate the case that died in 2019 was geared toward making the decrease courts go on a collision course with the supremacy of the apex court. The court then ordered him to pay N10 million every to President Buhari, the AGF, INEC and Tinubu the primary to fourth defendants within the swimsuit. The put up Appeal court fines ex-presidential candidate N40m for seeking to stop Tinubus inauguration appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
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