By Charles Adingupu
For attempting to halt the May 29 inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru has been fined a whooping N40 million.
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday imposed the fine on Chief Albert Owuru for filing a frivolous petition aimed at Scuttling the Swearing in ceremony.
The appellate court in its ruling, ordered the politician to pay the fine of N10 million each to President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and Bola Tinubu who were the 1st to 4th defendants in his case.
Justice Jamil Tukur, who read the lead judgment of the three-man panel of the court, held that Owuru embarked on a gross abuse of court process by filing a frivolous, vexatious and irritating suit to provoke the respondents.
The Court of Appeal held that the grievances of Owuru against the 2019 presidential election were not only strange but uncalled for because these grievances had been pursued up to Supreme Court and dismissed for want of merit.
Justice Tukur said that the action of Owuru in resuscitating a case that died since 2019 at the Supreme Court was calculated to make the lower courts go on collision course with the supreme apex court.
