Another Legal Battle In Supreme Court Against Tinubu’s Presidency
A Supreme Court case regarding President Bola Tinubu’s alleged illegal presidential inauguration is pending, and a legal challenge to the conduct of the 2023 presidential election is still pending.
Albert Ambrose Owuru, an up-and-comer in the 2019 general political race and a protected legal counselor, is encouraging the High Court to invalidate Tinubu’s introduction.
Owuru contends that the political decision which delivered Tinubu was invalid because of an unsettled claim.
The continuous High Legal dispute, numbered SC/667/2023, records Boss A.A. Owuru and the Expectation Leftist faction as appellants, while previous President Muhammadu Buhari, the Head legal officer of the Alliance (AGF), the Free Public Appointive Commission (INEC), and Bola Ahmed Tinubu are respondents.
Owuru argues that Tinubu’s declaration as president by INEC violates the Supreme Court and established law due to lis pendens. Additionally, Owuru argues that since Tinubu is a party in the pending suit before the Supreme Court, he should not have presented himself for inauguration in any presidential election.
Owuru ran for president in 2019 on the platform of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) against former President Muhammadu Buhari. He claimed to have won the election, despite the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaring Buhari the winner.
His suit looking for a request for Court to pronounce him as the decreed and sacred champ of the 2019 political race and presently forthcoming under the watchful eye of the High Court was on May 18 this year, intentionally joined by Tinubu as a closely involved individual.
In a new notice served on Tinubu by Chambers of Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, the former presidential candidate also asks the Supreme Court to stop the respondents, and specifically Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from using the Federation Account until the constitutional issues are resolved and the 2023 election is held.
In a proclamation he gave in Abuja close by a common gathering, Trust Africa Establishment in regard of the suit, Owuru battled that since Tinubu had become mindful of the suit and hosted willfully joined as an intrigued get-together after savage contentions of his legal counselors, he had penetrated the principle of liz pendis and his implied initiation responsible to excusal.
“We want to place on record that Tinubu’s claim to the office of the President is affected by reason of his being Lis Pendens,” read a portion of the statement that was signed by Africa Hope Foundation National Coordinator Anwal Ibrahim.
“This is so in light of the fact that having joined the forthcoming suit regarding the matter of command usurpation by Buhari, nothing should have been finished until the last goals of questioned issues.
“The present act of self-help and claim to occupy the office of the president by any of the parties in this action is without a doubt an act of self-help and violates the law and the doctrine of Lis Pendens, which is to the effect that nothing should be done by parties to change or affect the subject matter before the court so as not to prejudice the existing adjudged acquired constitutional rights and mandate of Chief Owuru as the adjudged constitutional winner of the 2019 presidential election.” There is no doubt that
“It is on record that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in acknowledgment of the principle of Lis Pendens and the current suits on the issue of usurpation of order among Owuru and Buhari, joined the continuous procedures then, at that point, in Court of Allure on the eighteenth of May 2023 preceding his implied initiation over the 2023 official discretionary calamity.
“He is bound to wait for the outcome of the proceedings in the already-existing issue of Owuru’s entitlement to serve out the same and usurpation of constitutional mandate.
“The ramifications of this, by regulation is that the 2023 official political decision and its result which Tinubu knew about prior to joining the suit, is subsumed and reliant upon the result of the current judicial procedures regarding the matter of the all around pronounced but to be served established command of Owuru to serve out the term of office of the Leader of Nigeria as legally necessary
“Our regulations in such manner concerning the tenet of Lis pendens has been very much certified by the High Court on account of Peter Obi versus Ngige (Supra) as gatherings are to keep up with and rigorously notice the reality of the presence of forthcoming suits and viability and strength of sabotaging the court’s ward and participating in demonstration of self improvement and a bold usurpation of competitor, parties command, topic in the forthcoming case.
“There is no question that this demonstration of the current All Moderates Congress (APC) drove focal government in pragmatic terms are clear demonstrations actof usurpation.
“We urge Nigerians to exercise patience in the due and early resolution of these outstanding issues in order to know who truly is the authentic Nigerian President,” as law-abiding citizens.
Owuru who professed to be decreed Sacred champ of the 2019 official political race anticipated his grouse against the introduction of Tinubu or any other person as replacement to Buhari on the ground that he is the naturally pronounced victor of the 2019 political decision and has not spent his four-year residency as legally necessary.
Among others, Owuru had demanded then that Buhari was usurping his residency of office starting around 2019 on the grounds that the High Court has not decided his appeal recorded in 2019 in which he tested the implied statement of Buhari as the political race champ.
On January 30, 2023, Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed his first suit, prompting his transfer to the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Allure in Abuja on its part on May 25 in a judgment by Equity Jamil Tukur who drove a 3-man board had would not stop the May 29 initiation of Tinubu.
By filing a frivolous, vexatious, and irritating lawsuit to provoke the responde, Owuru, according to Justice Tukur, acted in gross violation of the procedures of the court.