The presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2019 presidential election, Chief Albert Ambrose Owuru, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before a Federal High Court, Abuja asking it to declare the presidency vacant.
Owuru, a lawyer, urged the court to declare Buhari unlawful President illegally occupying the presidential seat.
The plaintiff is asking the court to declare him as the authentic winner of the poll.
He wants the court to make an order directing his immediate inauguration to take over from Buhari, two years after swearing in
In the suit he instituted on June 16, 2021 against President Buhari and two others, Owuru claimed that he won the February 16, 2019 presidential election and that his suit against Buhari at the Supreme Court was inconclusive due to some errors on the 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 the court to refund all salaries, allowances and emoluments he collected in these past two years as President.
Owuru pleaded with the court to give order that salaries, allowances and emoluments be paid to him from 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 the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from any further organizing, and conducting 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.
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