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Court dismisses suit seeking Buhari’s sack

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the suit against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. The suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope…

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the suit against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.

The suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, Chief Ambrose Owuru, was thrown out by Justice Inyang Ekwo on Monday, January 30, 2023.

The suit was dismissed on three grounds.

One of the grounds according to ThePunch 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.

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Published January 30, 2023
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