AMERE GAFARU AKINTAYO V. GEORGE JOLAOYE & ORS.

SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal by the Appellant who was the Petitioner at the Governorship/National Assembly and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal, Osun State, sitting at Osogbo, in Petition No. NA/EPT/OS/2/2007 against the judgment of the Tribunal Coram:- Honourable Justices, T. D. Naron, S. Mohammed, J. N. Akpughunum, A. T. Badamasi, J. E. Ekanem, delivered on the 30th of May, 2008, wherein the honourable Tribunal dismissed the petition as lacking in merit.

The facts leading up to this appeal are briefly set out follows:-

"Elections were conducted into the National Assembly on the 21st of April, 2007. The Appellant, a member of the Action Congress (A.C.), contested the seat for Ayedire/Iwo/Ola-Oluwa Constituency. At the conclusion of the election, the 3rd to 253rd Respondents declared the 1st Respondent who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (P.D.P.) the winner. The Appellant was dissatisfied with the outcome of…