Declare Me Winner Of 2019 Polls, Ex-Presidential Candidate, Owuru Seeks Court Order To Stop 2023 Elections

A former presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru has prayed the Court of Appeal to declare him winner of the last presidential elections.

Owuru in a suit he instituted on June 16, 2021 in the High Court had claimed that INEC had no constitutional power to have shifted the constitutionally fixed February 16, 2019 election, to February 23.

Naija News understands that a Federal High Court in Abuja on January 30 dismissed his case against President Muhammadu  Buhari on the grounds that the court said the suit lacked merit.

However, in his notice of appeal filed against the judgment of a Federal High Court, the former presidential candidate accused the high court of a miscarriage of justice in the ways and manners his suit was adjudicated upon.

Owuru in his notice of appeal sighted by Daily Post alleged that Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja erred in law and wrongfully interpreted Section 132 of the 1999 Constitution in arriving at findings that led to the dismissal of his case for want of merit.

He claimed that the High Court judge erred in law when he invoked Section 285 of the Constitution on limitations to hold that his case was statute barred having not been filed within a period stipulated by law.

The former candidate also faulted the finding of Justice Ekwo which held that his case was an affront to the finality and supremacy of the Supreme Court’s decision on the matter delivered in 1999.

Naija News gathered that the former presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in a fresh suit at the Court of Appeal in Abuja has demanded that the seat of the president be declared vacant and that he should be sworn in as the authentic winner of that election.

The fresh appeal, which is predicated on five grounds asked the Court of Appeal among other things set aside the High Court judgment and enter judgment in his favour and against Buhari, as well as stop the incoming polls.

Owuru, is also seeking the sack of President Muhammadu Buhari because he was a product of an unlawful election of February 23 and has therefore been governing the country unlawfully.

In his new suit, the HDP chieftain also sought the court to halt the preparation for the forthcoming 2023 general election until his suit against the president is fully determined.

Meanwhile, this platform learnt that hitherto his High Court suit, Owuru had dragged the president to the Supreme Court.

A suit the apex court was said to have dismissed due to discrepancies in the hearing date issued during the hearing of the case.

The main ground of his case was that since his suit against Buhari at the Supreme Court in 2019 was inconclusive due to errors on the adjourned date, he should be declared the winner of the February 16 presidential election.