MR. SULLIVAN I. CHIME V. REV. DR. OSCAR EGWUONWU & ORS

ABUBAKAR ABDULKADIR JEGA, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): CA/E/EPT/18/08 This is an appeal against the judgment of the Governorship/Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Enugu in the Enugu State of Nigeria.

The appellant Barr. Sullivan I. Chime was the 1st Respondent in Petitions No. NAGLIEPT/EN/GOV/35/2007 and NAGL/EPT/EN/GOV/36/2007 and filed by Oscar Egwuonwu the Governorship candidate of Democratic Peoples Party and Peoples Democratic Party respectively. At the trial, the two petitions were consolidated and heard as one.

The facts of this appeal as can be gathered from the totality of the record before the court are that the Petitioner in Petition No.NAGL/EPT/EN/GOV/35/2007 is Rev. Dr. Oscar Egwuonwu while the Petitioner in NAGL/EPT/EN/GOV/36/2007 is the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP). At the close of the gubernatorial elections in Enugu State, the appellant who scored 811,798 votes as against the 1st Respondent's 5,814 votes was declared the winner of …