Ex-presidential Candidate Is Penalized N40 Million By The Court For Trying To Stop Tinubu's Inauguration

Ambrose Albert Owuru 

The Court of Appeal in Abuja imposed a fine of N40 million on Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru on May 25, 2023. He's a former candidate for president of the Hope Democratic Party, for launching a frivolous lawsuit to prevent the inauguration of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on May 29.

In this case, the politician named President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation AGF, Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, and Tinubu as his first through fourth defendants. The court ordered the politician to pay each of them a fine of N10 million.

By launching a frivolous, vain, and obnoxious lawsuit to prove the respondents, Owuru engaged in egregious abuse of the judicial system, according to Justice Jamil Tukur, who read the lead judgment of the three-person panel of the court.

The judge ruled that Owuru's complaints about the 2019 presidential election were not only unusual, but also uncalled for as they had already been taken all the way to the Supreme Court and been rejected for lack of substance.

Justice Tukur stated that Owuru's effort to revive the case that had been pending before the Supreme Court since 2019 was intended to put the inferior courts in direct opposition to the sovereignty of the highest court.