Supreme Court will on Monday, December 16, decide the fate of President Bola Tinubu in a new lawsuit demanding his removal from office as Nigeria’s leader.
The current suit, SC/CV/667/2023, petitions the Supreme Court to remove Tinubu from office on two key grounds: claimed non-qualification to occupy the office of President of Nigeria and usurpation of the same position in violation of national law.
Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, a contender for the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), filed the new complaint directly with the Supreme Court.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and Tinubu are the first through fourth defendants in the complaint, respectively.
Owuru, a British-trained lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982, claims he won the 2019 presidential election but was allegedly hijacked by Buhari for eight years.
He said that his action before the Supreme Court, which would have removed Buhari from office, was officially dismissed by the court owing to a miscommunication over the hearing dates.
On the other hand, he prayed the apex court to disqualify Tinubu on account of forfeiture of $460,000 to the United States of America over alleged involvement in drug trafficking-related offences.
Besides the alleged forfeiture of the sum about drug trafficking, the former presidential candidate also accused Tinubu of being an active agent of the CIA, a position he said, prohibits Tinubu from holding the office of the President of Nigeria.
Upon his declaration as winner of the 2019 presidential poll and disqualification of Tinubu for not being qualified to hold the office of Nigeria’s president, Owuru is asking the Supreme Court to pronounce him as Nigeria’s President and as well order his immediate inauguration to reclaim his usurped mandate
Meanwhile, the apex court has fixed Monday, December 16, for the definite hearing of the suit.
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