Appeal Court Fines Ex-presidential Candidate Seeking To Stop Tinubu’s Inauguration N40m

Court of Appeal, Abuja has fined a ex-Presidential Candidate, Ambrose Owuru N40m for filing a frivolous suit seeking to stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29.

Gatekeepers News reports that the Court ordered Owuru to pay the sum of N10m each to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Tinubu.

Justice Jamil Tukur, while reading the lead judgment of the three man panel of the court, held that Owuru embarked on a gross abuse of court process by filing a frivolous, suit to provoke the respondents.

Justice Tukur further 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.

The Court of Appeal held 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 supremacy of the Apex Court.