Former Presidential Candidate To Pay N40m Fine Seeking To Stop Tinubu’s Inauguration In Court

Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP), has been slammed a N40 million fine by the Abuja Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday for filing a suit to stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29.

According to the appellate court, Chief Owuru will pay a N10 million fine each to President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation AGF, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Tinubu whom he made 1st to 4th defendants in the issue.

The presiding judge, Justice Jamil Tukur, who read the lead judgment of the three man panel of the court, held that Owuru embarked on gross abuse of court process by filing a frivolous, vexatious and irritating suit to provoke the respondents.

The Court of Appeal held that the grievances of Owuru against the 2019 presidential election was not only strange but uncalled for because the grievances had been pursued up to Supreme Court and was dismissed for want of merit.

Justice Tukur said that the action of Owuru to resuscitate the case that died since 2019 at the Supreme Court was aimed at making the lower courts to go on collision course with the supremacy of the apex court