The Supreme Court, on Monday, threw out a suit which was seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office....TAP TO READ THE FULL CONTENT | TAP TO READ THE FULL CONTENT
In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, the apex court awarded a fine of N5million against the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Owuru.
Owuru was the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the 2019 general election.
The panel, which was led by Justice Uwani Musa Abba-Aji, warned the Registry of the Supreme Court not to accept any frivolous originating summons from the plaintiff again.
In the legal action he filed directly at the apex court, Owuru, among other claims, alleged that President Tinubu is an active agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America (USA), a position he argued makes him unfit to occupy the presidential seat.
The plaintiff equally urged the apex court to disqualify Tinubu on the account that he had earlier forfeited the sum of $460,000 to the government of the USA in a drug-related case.
He specifically prayed the Supreme Court to invoke section 157 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and oust Tinubu from office for being under the control of foreign authorities.
Besides, Owuru, whose political party, HDP, had since been de-registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in his suit marked SC/CV/667/2023, joined ex-President Muhammadu Buhari as a defendant in the matter.
