HON. SOLOMON ANUSIKE A. V. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC) & ORS

STANLEY SHENKO ALAGOA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling of the National Assembly/Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal Anambra State Holden at Awka in Petition No. EPT/AN/SAE/72/2007 CORAM: Hon. Justice James Shehu Abiriyi (Chairman), Hon. Justice Ayuba Garba Kwajaffa (Member), Hon. Justice Peter Osoretinmwhen Isibor (Member), Hon. Justice Biobele Abraham Georgewill (Member) and Justice Abubakar Muazu Lamido (Member) delivered on the 15th October 2007. The facts leading up to this appeal are briefly stated hereunder as follows -

The Appellant who was Petitioner in the Tribunal below on the 14th May 2007 commenced action in the said Tribunal seeking the following reliefs -

i. Declaration that no election was conducted in the entire Orumba South Constituency in which your Petitioner was a candidate for the Anambra State House of Assembly under the All Progressive Grand Alliance on the 14th April 2007.

ii. Declaration…