According to a court ruling, the Court of Appeal in Abuja will hear the new lawsuit today in an effort to halt Bola Tinubu’s inauguration as president-elect on May 29.

On January 30, 2023, Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed the petition, and Ambrose Owuru moved the case to the Appellate Court

The CA/ABJ/CV/259/2023 lawsuit was filed by Owuru, a contender for president in the 2019 election, and his Hope Democratic Party.

In order to prevent the president, Major General (Ret.) Muhammadu Buhari, the attorney general of the federation, and the Independent National Electoral Commission from inaugurating the president-elect on May 29, the plaintiff is asking the court to issue an injunction.

He wants the responses to stop acting in any way about the 2023 presidential election, which Tinubu won.

Owuru, who asserts that he was the legitimate victor of the 2019 presidential election, filed a lawsuit to prevent Tinubu from succeeding Buhari on the grounds that he won the election and had not used his one-year term as required by law.

Because the Supreme Court has yet to rule on his suit from 2019, in which he contested Buhari’s announcement as the election victor, he argued that Buhari has been usurping his tenure of office since that year.

On May 18, the court heard an argument from Wole Olanipekun SAN Chambers about a joint motion filed by Tinubu.

The court approved Tinubu’s motion and added him as a fourth respondent alongside Buhari and INEC in a quick decision.

The court instructed Buhari, AGF, INEC, and Tinubu as the first through fourth respondents to file their Respondent Briefs and serve the appellants by 10 am this morning. Tinubu was recently added to the lawsuit on the grounds that he had an interest that could be harmed.

It also issued a directive directing the appellants to serve the respondents and submit their reply brief by today at noon.

The court then set today’s hearing in the case at 3 p.m.