Ambrose Owuru, Hope Democratic Party, HDP presidential candidate in the previous  general elections in Nigeria, a legal practitioner who was in 2013 arrested and prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over ₦66 million land scam, has been fined ₦5 million by the Nigeria apex court, the Supreme Court of Justice for filling frivolous charges against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, seeking the West Africa country president’s removal from office.

EFCC had on July 31, 2013 arrested Barrister Ambrose Owuru over an allegation of obtaining the sum of sixty-six million naira from one Ikechukwu Eze under false pretence.

The complainant alleged that sometimes in March 2011, he paid the sum of sixty million naira through Skye Bank, Olu Obansanjo Road branch, Port Harcourt, to Barrister Owuru for a property located at Nzimiro Street, Amadi flat, Port Harcourt.

“In the process of taking possession of the property, it was discovered that a portion had been sold to another person. At this point, Barrister Owuru allegedly asked for another ₦6 million to settle the other buyer, one Chief Austin Omire, which Eze allegedly obliged him.

Since then, every attempt to take possession or develop the said property met with resistance. Upon receipt of the petition and commencement of investigation, the Commission invited the suspect severally but he refused to honour the invitations which culminated in his arrest”, EFCC stated in its press release issued first week of August, 2013.

Also in August, 2013, EFCC issued another Press Release, stating that a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted the former presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, Chief Ambrose Owuru bail in the sum of ten million naira, and one surety who must be a lawyer of thirty years post call experience. 

“Justice Suleiman Aliyu also ordered that the surety must swear an affidavit of means while the accused undertake to be present in court throughout his trial.

Owuru was arraigned on August 2, 2013 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 5-count charge that borders on uttering, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence. He allegedly obtained the sum of sixty-six million naira from one Ikechukwu Eze through a phony land deal.

One of the counts read: “that you, Ambrose Owuru on or about the 7th day of March 2011 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of Sixty Million Naira from Ikechukwu Eze on the pretence that you have sold to him four (4) plots of land situated at Plot 44A, Amadi Layout- Port Harcourt a pretext which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1 (3) of the same Act”.

Another count reads; “that you, Ambrose Owuru on or about the 7th day of March 2011 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did utter a forged “Certificate of Occupancy” dated 20th of March 1990, purportedly issued by the Rivers State Lands and Survey, covering Plot 44A Amadi Layout, Port Harcourt and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (2) ( c ) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act CaP M17 of the Revised Edition (Law of the Federation of Nigeria) 2007, and punishable under section 1 (2) of the same Act”.

He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Justice Aliyu adjourned the case till October 10, 2013 for commencement of trial. The court also ordered that the accused person be remanded in the EFCC custody until he perfects his bail conditions”.

Justice B O Quadri of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, River State, on November 11, 2015, overruled a preliminary objection filed by G I Abibo, SAN, in a case involving a former presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, Chief Ambrose Owuru, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for a phony land deal to the tune of Sixty-Six Million Naira”.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking President Bola Tinubu’s removal, deeming it frivolous.

The apex court imposed a fine of ₦5 million in the suit filed by Hope Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Ambrose Owuru, over President Bola Tinubu alleged CIA and drug involvement

Owuru had petitioned the Supreme Court to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. Owuru alleged that Tinubu’s alleged affiliation with the US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA renders him unfit for the presidency.

Additionally, he cited Tinubu’s prior forfeiture of $460,000 to the US government in a drug-related case as grounds for disqualification.

He petitioned the Supreme Court to invoke Section 157 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and consequently declare President Tinubu unfit to occupy the nation’s highest office. Owuru based his prayers on the allegation that President Tinubu is beholden to foreign authorities, thereby compromising his ability to effectively discharge his duties.

Furthermore, in suit number SC/CV/667/2023, Owuru joined former President Muhammadu Buhari as a respondent, positing that the latter’s tenure was unconstitutional.

As the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), recently re-registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (InEC), Owuru contended that he was the legitimate victor of the 2019 presidential election.

Owuru alleged that Buhari usurped his mandate and illicitly governed the country for eight years. He recounted that an earlier suit filed before the Supreme Court, seeking Buhari’s removal, was inadvertently dismissed due to a scheduling mix-up.

This technical oversight, Owuru argued, thwarted justice and perpetuated Buhari’s purportedly illegal occupation of the presidency.

He urged the apex court that after disqualifying President Tinubu, it should declare him President and order his immediate inauguration. This, he argued, would enable him to reclaim his purportedly usurped mandate. 

The respondents in the suit include President Tinubu, former President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation, and the Independent National Electoral Commission.

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