A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, Chief Ambrose Owuru, against the election of the President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, the presiding judge, threw out the suit on three grounds.
One of the grounds was that the suit constituted a gross abuse of court process; statute barred and was an affront to the supremacy of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
The judge also held that the suit was baseless and frivolous.
Owuru had instituted legal action against Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission, asking the Federal High Court to declare him as the winner of the poll.
He also claimed that his tenure had been usurped by President Buhari, praying the court to compel Buhari to refund all monies he collected as salaries, emoluments and security votes.
Among other reliefs, he had asked the court to determine the legality or otherwise of the decision by INEC in 2019 during which it postponed the election from February 16 to March 23.
He claimed that INEC acted against the constitution in illegal and unlawful ways and manners the presidential poll was shifted and the declaration of Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the unlawful act should be declared null and void and of no effect.
The ground of his claim was predicated on the fact that the petition he lodged against Buhari had not been adjudicated upon by the Supreme Court as required by law.
He, therefore, prayed the court removes Buhari and declares him (Owuru) the authentic President and that Buhari should be compelled to refund all monies he collected as salaries, emoluments and security votes.
The HDP presidential candidate also asked the court to order his inauguration for a four-year tenure of office upon removal of Buhari from office and that the Federal High Court should stop INEC from conducting the 2023 presidential election.
