By Ken Chiwendu
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has ordered ex – presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru to pay a fine of N40 million for filing a frivolous suit to stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29.
In a lead judgement of a three member panel of the court read by Justice Jamil Tukur , the court ordered Owuru to pay the fine of N10 million each to President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation AGF, Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, and Tinubu whom he made 1st to 4th defendants in the issue.
The court held that Owuru embarked on gross abuse of court process by filing a frivolous, vexatious and irritating suit to provoke the respondents.
The Appellant court held that the grievances of Owuru against the 2019 presidential election was not only strange but uncalled for because the grievances had been pursued up to Supreme Court and was dismissed for lack of merit
The judges said that the action of Owuru to resuscitate a case that was dismissed by the Supreme Court since 2019 was aimed at causing mischief and making the lower courts to go on collision course with the supremacy of the apex court.
