{"id":58053,"date":"2024-12-16T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58053"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:40:11","slug":"supreme-court-to-rule-on-tinubus-disqualification-case-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/16\/supreme-court-to-rule-on-tinubus-disqualification-case-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to Rule on Tinubu\u2019s Disqualification Case Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court will deliver a judgment today, December 16, 2024, on a case seeking to disqualify President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and remove him from office.<br \/>\nThe case, filed by Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, a 2019 presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), claims Owuru is the rightful winner of the 2019 presidential election.<br \/>\nHe is asking the court to declare him president.<br \/>\nOwuru\u2019s suit challenges Tinubu\u2019s eligibility, citing his alleged 1993 forfeiture of $460,000 in the United States over suspected drug-related activities.<br \/>\nHe also accuses Tinubu of being a CIA operative, alleging further disqualifying factors.<br \/>\nThe case lists former President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as co-defendants.<br \/>\nOwuru contends that his earlier suit against Buhari was dismissed due to a procedural error, depriving him of justice.<br \/>\nHe seeks Tinubu\u2019s disqualification and his reinstatement as the legitimate 2019 election winner, arguing that Buhari\u2019s administration and Tinubu\u2019s presidency are illegitimate.<br \/>\nThe court\u2019s decision, expected today, could significantly impact Nigeria\u2019s political dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Supreme Court will deliver a judgment today, December 16, 2024, on a case seeking to disqualify President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and remove him from office. The case, filed by Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, a 2019 presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), claims Owuru is the rightful winner of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59,148],"class_list":["post-58053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-supreme-court"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58055,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58053\/revisions\/58055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}