- An Abuja-based lawyer has been fined N40 million for filing a frivolous case to stop the inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, on May 29
- Justice Jamil Tukur of the court of appeal in Abuja said the court heard the case in 2019 and gave its verdict, adding that it was an abuse of the judicial process to raise the issue for re-litigation
- Tukur also maintained that the supreme court also heard the case in 2019 and gave its verdict, while the federal high court earlier this year ruled that the case was an abuse of the judicial process
FCT, Abuja – An Abuja Court of Appeal has told Ambrose Owuru, an Abuja-based lawyer, to go and pay an N40 million fine for filing a frivolous suit against the May 29 inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect.
A 3-panel member of the court, in their ruling on Thursday, May 24, unanimously held that the appeal that Owuru and his party, the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), had filed was an abuse of the process of the court, The Nation reported.
