A presidential candidate in the 2019 Presidential election, Ambrose Owuru has asked the court to stop President-Elect, Bola Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s new President.
Owuru, a constitutional lawyer and a candidate under the umbrella of defunct political party, Hope Democratic Party – HDP, prayed the Court of Appeal Abuja to prohibit President Muhammadu Buhari; Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; and the Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC, from inaugurating the President-elect on May 29.
Owuru is telling the court that he is the constitutionally adjudged winner of the 2019 election and has not spent his tenure as required by law, adding that, for that reason, Tinubu or anybody else cannot be sworn-in as successor to Buhari.
Owuru insisted that Buhari has been usurping his tenure of office since 2019 because the Supreme Court has not determined his petition filed in 2019 in which he challenged the purported declaration of Buhari as the election winner.
He also applied for another order directing and placing on notice that any form of handover inauguration, organized and Superintended by Buhari on May 29, 2023 outside the adjudged winner of the 2019 presidential election, subject of the pending appeal, remains as an “interim place holder” administration pending the hearing and determination of his substantive appeal on constitutional interpretation thereof.
The motion is supported with an 8-paragraph affidavit praying the Court of Appeal for an expeditious hearing before the inauguration of Tinubu.
No date has been fixed for hearing.