Ex-Ptesidential Candidate Owuru, Sues Buhari , Asks Court to Declare Presidency Vacant
Two years after the conduct of the last Presidential election, one of the candidates in the poll Chief Albert Ambrose Owuru has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before a Federal High Court in Abuja asking the court to declare the Presidency vacant
Owuru, a British trained constitutional lawyer and called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982 wants the court to Buhari as unlawful President illegally occupying the Presidential seat.
The plaintiff who stood for the 2019 Presidential election on the platform of the Hope Democratic Party HDD is asking the to declare him the authentic winner of the poll and an order of court directing his immediate inauguration to take over from Buhari.
In the suit he instituted on June 16. 2021 against President Buhari and two others, Owuru claimed boastfully that he won the February 16. 2019 Presidential debate and that his suit against Buhari at the Supreme Court was inconclusive due to some errors or adjourned date.
He sought a declaration by the federal high court that he is entitled to serve out a tenure of 4 years after his formal inauguration.
Among other reliefs , the HDP presidential candidate wants Buhari removed from office with immediate effect and be compelled through order of court to refund all salaries allowances and emoluments he collected while being unlawfully in office as President.
Owuru pleaded with the court to give order that salaries allowances and emoluments be paid to him grow May 29. 2019 till date when he ought to have been sworn in.
The plaintiff further applied for an order of perpetual injunction restraining Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation and Independent National Electoral Commission INEC from any further organizing, and conduct any Presidential election in 2023 so enable him complete his 4 year term when inaugurated.
Meanwhile no date has yet been fixed for hearing of the suit.