President Mohammadu Buhari and the Lawyer Basic of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami SAN, on Friday night shunned listening to in a swimsuit looking for to ban the inauguration of the President- elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Could 29.
Buhari and AGF are the primary and second respondents within the swimsuit.
The swimsuit was instituted by a former Presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuro.
However on the sitting, the duo didn’t file any course of or have any authorized illustration on the listening to of the swimsuit on the Courtroom of Enchantment Abuja, regardless of being served with listening to discover.
Nevertheless the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral fee (INEC), which performed the 2019 Presidential election and which was a topic tof dispute requested the Courtroom of Enchantment to dismiss the case of Owuro who claimed to be adjudged the constitutional winner of the 2019 Presidential election.
The electoral physique which is the third respondent within the enchantment described Owuru’s declare as adjudged constitutional winner of the of 2019 Presidential election as frivolous, baseless, irritating and unwarranted.
Represented by a authorized practitioner, Hassan Halilu INEC faulted the claims of Owuru and urged the Courtroom of Enchantment to dismiss it with heavy price on the bottom that the swimsuit lacked advantage.
On his half, the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu who joined the swimsuit as an social gathering on the Courtroom of Enchantment argued that the claims of Owuru to the 2019 Presidential election was not solely unusual however baseless, frivolous and un- meritorious.
Tinubu by way of his counsel, Adelani Ajibade, from the Chamber of Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN informed the three-man panel of the Courtroom of Enchantment that the purported constitutional rights being claimed and asserted by the previous Presidential candidate had been extinguished by a Supreme Courtroom judgment which nullified his petition filed towards the 2019 Presidential election.
The President-elect whose temporary of argument was filed on Could 19 demanded for outright dismissal of the swimsuit with 20 million naira price to be paid to the respondents by Owuru and his social gathering, Hope Democratic Occasion (HDP).
In the meantime, Justice Jamil Tukur who headed the three-man panel of justice within the listening to of the matter has adjourned judgment indefinitely.
Justice Tukur mentioned events within the enchantment can be communicated as quickly because the judgment is prepared.
Earlier than the listening to of the swimsuit Justice Tukur has ordered Owuru to vacate the seat reserved for under Senior Advocates of Nigeria members of the Nigerian Bar Affiliation.
Justice Tukur upon sighting Owuru sitting on the reserved seat, challenged him on when he turned a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, to which Owuru answered within the destructive.
Makes an attempt by Owurou to influence the court docket to contemplate his place as a senior lawyer within the nation was rejected by Justice Tukur who informed the previous presidential candidate that even when he’s as outdated as Methuselah within the bar, as a lawyer, he’s not entitled to be on the seat reserved for senior advocates solely.
“Even in case you are older than Methuselah within the Nigerian, you don’t have any place on the Interior Bar and you aren’t certified to be on the seat meant for members of the Interior Bar solely”. Justice Tukur mentioned.
Owuru who was referred to as to the Nigerian Bar in 1982 had in a contemporary movement on discover prayed the Courtroom of Enchantment to ban President Muhammadu Buhari, Lawyer Basic of the Federation (AGF) and the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) from inaugurating the 2023 President- elect on Could 29.
The politician who participated within the 2019 presidential ballot on the platform of Hope Democratic Occasion (HDP) wished Buhari, AGF and INEC be stopped from taking any additional steps on the 2023 presidential election that produced Tinubu as winner.
Owuru who claimed to be adjudged Constitutional winner of the 2019 presidential election predicated his grouse towards inauguration of Tinubu or anyone else as successor to Buhari on the bottom that he’s the constitutionally adjudged winner of the 2019 election and has not spent his tenure as required by regulation.
Amongst others, Owuru insisted that President Buhari has been usurping his tenure of workplace since 2019 as a result of the Supreme Courtroom has not decided his petition filed in 2019 through which he challenged the purported declaration of Buhari because the election winner.
In his movement on discover marked CA/CV/259/2023, 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 partaking in any act of usurpation of adjudged acquired Constitutional rights and mandate as winner of the 2019 presidential election.
He additionally utilized for one more order directing and putting on discover that any type of handover inauguration, organized and Superintended by Buhari on twenty ninth Could 2023 exterior his adjudged winner of the 2019 presidential election, topic of the pending enchantment stays and is seen as an “interim place holder” administration organized pending the listening to and willpower of his substantive enchantment on constitutional interpretation thereof.
Listed as respondents within the movement on discover are President Muhammadu Buhari, Lawyer Basic of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice and Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) as 1st to third respectfully earlier than Tinubu joined as 4th respondent
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