ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ONDO STATE & ORS V. OKITIPUPA OIL PALM PLC & ORS

MOJEED ADEKUNLE OWOADE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Ruling of the Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, delivered by Honourable Justice I. M. Sani on the 28th day of October, 2013.

The Respondents by a petition dated the 19th day of April, 2012 commenced an action against the appellants seeking various reliefs pursuant to Section 299,301, 310, 311 (2) of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004 (CAMA) as well as Section 251 (1) (e) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

The reliefs claimed by the Respondents as petitioners as contained in paragraph C (1 - 10) of their petition are as follows:

(1) A DECLARATION that the purported removal (vide the letter of the 3rd Respondent to the 3rd petitioner dated 13th March, 2012) of the General Manager from office by the Ondo State Government, its agents or servants, whosoever deriving authority from it, is illegal, null and void as being against the provis…