VICTOR AIMEPOMO O. OMAGE, J. C. A. :(delivering the leading judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Governorship/Legislative Houses Election Tribunal holden at Awka, Anambra State, per Coram J.S. Abiriyi and other members of the Tribunal.
The decision was made on 13th October 2007, in the main, in the decision, it struck out as abandoned, the petition of the appellant in the appeal on the grounds to be stated hereafter.
In the main Petition the appellant deposed that he contested, the sought to contest elections to the Anambra State House of Assembly Onitsha North 1 Constituency, and concluded all the necessary requirements to do so with INEC, the 1-3 respondents on the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance who sponsored him. On 14th April 2007 when the election was fixed to take place, he went to the various unit of the polling booth to find that no election took place. Eventually information reached him that the main office of INEC was burnt down by irate and f…