BREAKING NEWS: S’COURT DISMISSES LAWSUIT SEEKING REMOVAL OF TINUBU AS PRESIDENT OVER DRUG, CIA ALLEGATIONS
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The case to remove President Bola Tinubu from office was rejected by the Supreme Court.
Ambrose Aworu, the Hope Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, filed a lawsuit to remove Tinubu on the grounds of drug and Central Intelligence Agency claims.
A five-member panel of justices led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji unanimously decided on Monday that the complaint was frivolous and that Owuru should be fined N5 million.
Additionally, it cautioned the Supreme Court Registry not to accept any more pointless originating summonses from the plaintiff.
Among other things, Owuru claimed in the lawsuit he filed directly with the highest court that President Tinubu is an active agent of the US CIA, which he said disqualifies him from holding the office of president.
In addition, the plaintiff sought the Supreme Court to disqualify Tinubu due to his prior forfeiture of $460,000 to the United States government in a drug-related matter.
He particularly asked the Supreme Court to remove Tinubu from office for being controlled by foreign powers by invoking section 157 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
Owuru joined former President Muhammadu Buhari as a defendant in his lawsuit, SC/CV/667/2023, whose political party, HDP, has since been de-registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC.
But when the case came up for hearing on Monday, the plaintiff stood up to make his case alone while wearing the wig and gown of his attorney.
According to reports, on May 25, 2023, the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal fined the plaintiff N40 million for bringing a “frivolous” lawsuit to prevent Tinubu from taking the oath of office.
Additionally, Owuru had tried to thwart the swearing-in of former President Buhari.
He asserted that INEC helped President Buhari rig the 2019 presidential election results.
He contended that though the election was originally fixed for February 16, 2019, the INEC, about five hours to the commencement of the poll, announced a postponement and later held the electoral exercise on February 23, 2019.
Owuru claimed that prior to the postponement, he had emerged as the winner of a referendum he said was conducted and monitored by both foreign and local organisations.
He told the court that he had, at the end of the said referendum, garnered over 50 million votes, which he said was far and above the number of votes that other candidates that contested the presidential election, including Buhari, secured.
According to the British-trained lawyer who was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982, ex-President Buhari’s tenure was illegal.
Owuru alleged that though he was the valid winner of the 2019 presidential poll, Buhari hijacked his mandate and piloted affairs of the country for eight years.
Consequently, he argued that upon the disqualification of Tinubu for being unfit to hold the top job, the apex court should pronounce him as president and order his immediate inauguration to enable him to reclaim his usurped mandate.
Aside from President Tinubu and Buhari, other defendants in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, as well as the Independent National Electoral Commission.
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