ALHAJI MUHAMMADU EGBA ENAGI V. DR. MUSA INUWA & ORS.

MUSDAPHER, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 6th of December, 1991, the Federal Military Government promulgated into Law Decree No.50. It is the State Government (Basic Constitutional and Transitional Provisions) Decree 1991 Under this enactment provisions were made for the holding of elections in respect of the governors of all the thirty States of the Federation and the members of the States Houses of Assembly for each State. By virtue of the provisions of the said Decree, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) in the exercise of the powers vested in it by the said Decree No. 50, of 1991 had made preparations and organised elections of the Governors and the members of the legislatures to be held on the 14th day of December, 1991 throughout the Federation of Nigeria. The elections were based on the candidates sponsored by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC). In Niger State, Alhaji Muhammadu Egba Enagi was the candidate sponso…