A Nigerian court fined a former presidential candidate in the 2019 election for filing a suit to prevent President-elect Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29.
Ambrose Owuru, a lawyer, was ordered by the court to pay $87,000 (£80,000) for pursuing a “strange” and “frivolous” suit.
Mr. Owuru, who ran and lost in the 2019 presidential election, had asked the court to appoint him as president instead of Mr Tinubu.
The lawyer, who did not run in the 2023 presidential election, claimed he won the 2019 presidential election but was wrongfully denied it.
In dismissing the case in October 2019, the Supreme Court described it as an abuse of the legal system.
Mr. Owuru filed another suit based on the facts of his 2019 case after Mr. Tinubu was declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
On Thursday, a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal in Abuja unanimously dismissed the suit.
