The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the suit instituted by a former presidential aspirant, Abrose Owuro, seeking to stop the May 29 inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
Justice Jamil Tukur who lead a three-man panel of justices in the hearing adjourned indefinitely after parties adopted all their processes.
President Mohammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation who are the first and second respondents respectively in the suit also shunned hearing as they did not have any legal representation in the suit, despite been served with the hearing notice.
When hearing commenced, the Independent National Electoral commission INEC, who are the 3rd respondents in the suit, asked the court to dismiss the case of Owuro who claimed to be adjudged the constitutional winner of the 2019 presidential election.
The electoral body described Owuro’s claim as adjudged constitutional winner of the of 2019 presidential election as frivolous, baseless and unwarranted and urged the court to dismiss the suit with heavy cost on the ground that the suit lacked merit.
On his part the president-elect who joined the suit as an interested party agreed that the claims of Owuro to the 2019 presidential election was not only strange but unmeritorious.
Tinubu said the purported rights being claimed and asserted by the former presidential candidate had been extinguished by a Supreme Court judgment which nullified his petition filed against the 2019 presidential election. He demanded for outright dismissal of the suit with 20 million naira cost.
While adjourning indefinitely Justice Tukur said parties would be informed as soon as the judgment is ready.
