Suit seeking to stop Tinubu’s inauguration for definite hearing in Appeal Court today

Suit seeking to stop Tinubu’s inauguration for definite hearing in Appeal Court today

 The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set the stage for definite
hearing today, Friday, in a fresh suit seeking prohibition of inauguration of
the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on May 29.

 

The Court ordered that the suit marked CA/ABJ/CV/259/2023
seeking to prevent Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s new President to
take over government on May 29, must be heard unfailingly by 3pm today.

 

To clear coast for hearing of the suit, the Appellate Court
on May 18 heard a joinder motion by Tinubu and argued by Chief Wole Olanipekun,
SAN, and in a brief ruling, granted Tinubu’s request and joined him as 4th
respondent, along with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC.

 

Immediately after joining Tinubu in the suit on the ground
that he has interest that could be jeopardized, the court thereafter ordered
that Buhari, AGF, INEC and Tinubu as 1st to 4th respondents should file their
Respondents’ Briefs and serve the Appellants by 10 am this morning.

 

The Appeal Court also issued an order that the Appellants
should file their Reply Brief and serve the Respondents by 12 noon today and
subsequently fixed the suit for hearing by 3 pm also today.

 

DAILY POST sighted the hearing notice on the notice board of
the Court of Appeal and was confirmed by the first Appellant in the matter,
Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru.

 

The suit is instituted by a Presidential candidate in the
2019 Presidential election and constitutional lawyer, Chief Ambrose Albert
Owuru and his political party, Hope Democratic Party (HDP).

 

Owuru, who was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982, is
praying the Court of Appeal in Abuja to prohibit President Muhammadu Buhari,
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) from inaugurating the 2023 President-elect on May 29.

 

The politician, who participated in the 2019 presidential
poll on the platform of Hope Democratic Party (HDP) wants Buhari, AGF and INEC
stopped from taking any further steps on the 2023 presidential election that
produced Tinubu as winner.

 

Owuru, who claimed to be adjudged Constitutional winner of
the 2019 presidential election, predicated his grouse against inauguration of
Tinubu or anybody else as successor to Buhari on the ground that he has not
spent his four-year tenure as required by law.

 

Among others, Owuru insisted that President Buhari has been
usurping his tenure of office since 2019 because the Supreme Court has not
determined his petition filed in 2019 in which he challenged the purported
declaration of Buhari as the election winner.

 

His first suit was dismissed by Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of
the Federal High Court in Abuja on January 30, 2023, prompting his movement to
the Court of Appeal to ventilate his anger.

Source: Suit seeking to stop Tinubu’s inauguration for definite hearing in Appeal Court today

 - NigerianEye
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