A five-member panel of the Supreme Court has in a unanimous decision dismissed a suit seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office.
The apex court also awarded a N5 million cost against Chief Ambrose Owuru, the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the 2019 general election, who filed the suit.
Owuru had asked the Supreme Court to sack Tinubu over the claim that he was an active agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He argued that this made Tinubu unfit to continue to occupy the presidential seat.
He also argued that Tinubu ought to be sacked as he had earlier forfeited the sum of $460,000 to the government of the USA in a drug-related case.
Owuru whose party had been de-registered by INEC is known for filing frivolous suits. In 2023, he had filed a suit claiming that he was the valid winner of the 2019 presidential election and the then President Muhammadu Buhari hijacked his mandate.
But Justice Uwani Musa Abba-Aji, who led the Supreme Court panel on Monday expressed his disenchantment with Owuru.
The judge ordered the Registry of the Supreme Court not to accept any frivolous originating summons from the plaintiff again. The court said the plaintiff only filed a frivolous suit that had been dismissed three times.
The panel also threatened to forward Owuru’s name to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, to be disciplined.
