Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday fixed January 30 next year for judgment in a suit seeking to remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office and to also stop the conduct of the 2023 Presidential election.
The Judge fixed the judgment date following
the adoption of final addresses by President Buhari, the Attorney General of
the Federation (AGF), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and
the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru.
At Friday’s proceedings, Chief Ambrose
Albert Owuru, a Presidential candidate in the 2019 election on the platform of
the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), asked the Federal High Court to stop INEC from
conducting the 2023 presidential election.
He made the call on the grounds that he won
the 2019 Presidential election and that his tenure is being usurped by
President Muhammadu Buhari.
He prayed the court to remove Buhari and
declare him (Owuru) the authentic President and that Buhari should be compelled
to refund all monies he collected as salaries, emoluments and security votes.
Owuru, a British-trained constitutional
lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar in 1984 also asked the court to order his
inauguration for a four-year tenure of office upon removal of Buhari from
office.
The senior lawyer appeared for himself and
Hope Democratic Party HDP and also canvassed the final arguments.
Owuru and HDP had sued President Buhari and
two others seeking a court order to declare him the winner of the 2019
presidential election.
He specifically claimed that he won a
referendum conducted in 2019 and that President Buhari had been usurping his
tenure since then.
The politician further claimed that his
suit earlier lodged at the Supreme Court was unjustly dismissed following his
absence in the Apex Court occasioned by discrepancies in the hearing dates
conveyed to him.