National Telescope national telescope newspaper
By Ekpenyong Emmanuel
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed a lawsuit seeking the removal of President Bola Tinubu from office due to allegations of ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and drug-related offenses. The suit, filed by Ambrose Owuru, the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party in the 2019 general election, was deemed frivolous by the apex court.
In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, the court imposed a fine of N5 million on Owuru and warned the Registry of the Supreme Court not to accept any further frivolous suits from him.
Owuru had alleged that President Tinubu is an active agent of the CIA of the United States of America, a position he argued makes him unfit to occupy the presidential seat. He also claimed that Tinubu had forfeited $460,000 to the US government in a drug-related case, and urged the court to invoke section 157 of the 1999 Constitution to disqualify Tinubu.
The Court of Appeal had previously imposed a N40 million fine on Owuru for filing a similar “frivolous” suit to stop Tinubu’s inauguration as president
