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CLARA BATA OGUNBIYI, J.C.A.: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The judgment here is in respect of the two appeals, which were brought by notices of appeal filed on the 14th December 2007 and 15th March 2008 respectively. The two notices of appeal, which are at pages 586 - 589 of the record of appeal and pages 204-210 of the supplementary record of appeal respectively, were not assigned different numbers. They were therefore treated under one appeal number, and argued together even though there was no application for the consolidation of the two appeals. Because this is an election matter which ought to be treated expeditiously, the error or otherwise in this appeal will be overlooked.
The two rulings dated 29th November 2007 and 27th February 2008 against which the two appeals were filed arose from the same set of facts which I will set out here under briefly as follows:-
On the 14th day of April, 2007, Governorship elections were held throughout the 36 States of the Federal Republic…