Afrigather Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, a Presidential candidate within the 2019 Presidential election and constitutional lawyer and his political get together, Hope Democratic Occasion (HDP) has initiated a recent swimsuit searching for to cease Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Nigerian president-elect from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s new President on Could 29, 2023.
The swimsuit marked CA/CV/259/2023 has been instituted on the Courtroom of Attraction in Abuja.
Onwuru, who participated within the 2019 presidential ballot on the platform of HDP needs President Muhammadu Buhari, the Legal professional Common of the Federation, AGF, and the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, stopped from taking any additional steps on the 2023 presidential election that produced Tinubu as winner.
The politician, who was referred to as to the Nigerian Bar in 1982 requested the Courtroom of Attraction in Abuja to cease them from inaugurating the 2023 President-elect on Could 29.
Based on Owuru, he’s the adjudged constitutional winner of the 2019 presidential election and he’s towards the inauguration of Tinubu or anyone else as successor to Buhari on the bottom that he’s but to spend his tenure as required by legislation.
Additionally he insisted that President Buhari has illegally taken tenure of workplace since 2019 as a result of the Supreme Courtroom is but to find out his petition filed in 2019 during which he challenged the declaration of Buhari because the winner of the election.
Owuru utilized for “An order of prohibitory injunction compelling Buhari, AGF and INEC, their servants, brokers and privies to protect and provides due cognizance and abstain from any additional enterprise or participating in any act of usurpation of adjudged acquired Constitutional rights and mandate as winner of the 2019 presidential election.”
He additionally utilized for an additional order directing stating that any type of handover inauguration, organized by the president on the twenty ninth of Could 2023 exterior the adjudged winner of the 2019 presidential election, topic of the pending enchantment, stays as an “interim place holder” administration pending the listening to and willpower of his substantive enchantment on constitutional interpretation thereof.
He listed President Muhammadu Buhari, Legal professional Common of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice and the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) as 1st to third, respondents respectively.
The movement on discover filed on his behalf by Mr Odion Peter has been served on President Buhari and AGF by their counsel, Mrs Maimuna Lami Ashiru of the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja, whereas that of the INEC was served by the Head of Authorized Division and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr S. O Ibrahim.
The affidavit deposed to by an Abuja primarily based authorized practitioner, Adebayo Anafowode and filed on the Courtroom of Attraction in Abuja expressed apprehension that Owuru’s swimsuit towards Buhari could be rendered unimportance except given fast listening to.
In the meantime, no date has been fastened for listening to of the swimsuit by the Courtroom of Attraction.
