JUMMAI HANNATU SANKEY, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 14th April, 2007, elections were held into the offices of the Executive Governors of the 36 States in the country as well as into the Houses of Assembly of the various States. The Appellant was the candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) for the lIorin East Constituency, while the 1st Respondent was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP), the 2nd Respondent to this Appeal. The election was organised, supervised and conducted by the 3rd to 5th Respondents, Independent National Electoral Commission ((NEC) and its officials. At the close of election, the 3rd to 5th Respondents credited the 1st Respondent with 74, 905 votes and declared him winner and duly elected on the 15th April, 2007. Dissatisfied with the process by which the 1st Respondent emerged victorious, the Appellant, as Petitioner, filed a Petition at the Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Tribunal Ilorin, challenging and seekin…