The Supreme Court, on Monday, December 16, dismissed a suit seeking to sack President Bola Tinubu from office.
The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, awarded a fine of N5 million against the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Owuru, who was the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), in the 2019 general election.
As reported by Vanguard, 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.
Why Owuru wanted the court to sack Tinubu
In the legal action he filed directly at the apex court, Owuru, who contested the 2019 presidential election under the HDP, alleged that Tinubu was an active agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a position he argued makes him unfit to occupy the presidential seat.
He also urged the apex court to disqualify Tinubu on the grounds that he had earlier forfeited $460,000 to the US government in a drug-related case.
He specifically prayed the court to invoke section 157 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and oust Tinubu from office for being under the control of foreign authorities.
Following the dismissal of his case and the conduct of the presidential election on February 25, 2023, Owuru approached the appellate court to stop the swearing-in of the then president-elect, Tinubu, a prayer the court refused.
