ALHAJI BAKA ABDU V. BARR. BABA DALA, SEN. IBRAHIM M. BOMAI & MRS. N.Z. WAZIRI

RUQAYAT OREMEI AYOOLA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Yobe High Court, delivered on 25th September 2024 in Suit No: YBS/HC/PT/06CV/2021, in which the lower Court gave judgment in favour of the Respondents. (See pages 144 to 183 of the Record of Appeal) 

The Appellant, as Claimant at the lower Court, sued the Respondents, Defendants at the lower Court, claiming: 

1. A Declaration that the 1st defendant, having sold the said parcel of land to the plaintiff and the plaintiff having paid promptly for the said land, the 1st defendant has no more right or interest in the land, to be sold or disposed of to the 2nd defendant. 

2. A Declaration that the said or purported sale to the 2nd Defendant at the time the property had already been sold to the plaintiff is unconstitutional, null, void and illegal. 

3. An Order of specific performance of the contract of sale of the said property (which had already taken place before the purported sale of the same p…