SUPREME COURT STRIKES OUT SUIT CHALLENGING BUHARI’S RE-ELECTION

 The supreme court described as an abuse of court processes and also court held that the failure of  Owuru and his party to appeal the August 22 ruling of the tribunal was fatal to their appea and thereby struck out the appeal for being unmeritorious and for constituting an abuse of court process. l.

Penpushing further reports that, the apex court in  a unanimous decision,  upheld the objection raised by the three respondents in the suit and subsequently dismissed the appeal. The three respondents in the appeal include Buhari, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the All Progressive Congress (APC).

 The counsel representing  Buhari; Wole Olanipekun(SAN), as well as  Yunus Usman counsel to the electoral commission, and Lateef Fagbemi, the counsel to All Progressives Congress(APC), in separate preliminary objections, prayed  the Supreme Court to strike out the appeal on the grounds that the appellants contravened the law by filing two notices of appeal in one matter.

Penpushing also reports that, the trio drew the attention of the court to the first notice of appeal filed on August 28 and the second one filed on September 2, which were simultaneously used to formulate issues in the main appeal and which were predicated on different grounds.