Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adosa Bello, on Tuesday withdrew
from a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to stop the conduct of
the 2023 presidential election.
The governor bowed out of the suit praying to prohibit the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting 2023 election
on the ground that his presidential ambition is no longer under threat or
jeaopardy.
A presidential candidate in the 2019 election on the
platform of Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, had prayed
the Federal High Court to restrain INEC from conducting the 2023 presidential
election on the ground that he won the 2019 presidential election and that his
tenure is being usurped by President Muhammadu Buhari.
He sought order of the court to remove Buhari and declare
him (Owuru) the authentic president and that Buhari should be compelled to
refund all monies he collected as salaries, emoluments and security votes.
Owuru, a British-trained constitutional lawyer called to the
Nigerian Bar in 1984 also asked the court to order his inauguration for a four
year tenure of office upon removal of Buhari from office.
But upon becoming aware of the suit instituted against
President Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and and INEC,
Governor Bello had on May 20, 2022 rushed to the court with a motion on notice
praying the court to make him 4th defendant and an interested party in the suit.
Governor Bello’s joinder motion was filed by a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr Musa Yakubu on his behalf.
He had claimed that his presidential ambition under the All
Progressives Congress (APC) would be aborted and jeopardized if the prayers of
Owuru are granted.
Bello in the motion had claimed that he had purchased an
expression of interest form as well as nomination form from APC.
His motion was predicated on Order 9 Rule 4 of the Federal
High Court Civil Procedures and section 36 of the 1999 Constitution.
However, at Tuesday’s proceedings, Bello made a dramatic
turn with a request to be allowed to withdraw from the suit.
He claimed that he no longer has ambition for office of the
President in 2023 since APC’S presidential ticket has been won by another
person.
Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo in a brief ruling, struck out the
governor’s name from the suit based on the withdrawal application.
Justice Ekwo subsequently fixed November 4, 2022 for hearing
in Owuru’s suit seeking to remove Buhari from office and to declare him winner
of the 2019 presidential election.
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