NWEZE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The appellant herein was the petitioner at the Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal, Ilorin, Kwara State (hereinafter referred to as the lower tribunal). He was equally, a candidate in the election which the third-fifth respondents conducted on 15 April 2007. The electoral contest was for a seat into the Ilorin South Constituency of the Kwara State House of Assembly. He contested on the platform of the Democratic Peoples’Party (DPA). On the said 15 April 2007, the third-fifth respondents declared and returned the first respondent in this appeal, a candidate who was sponsored by the second respondent, as the winner of the said election. The appellant was dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, hence his petition at the lower tribunal. Upon the settlement of the pleadings, the tribunal proceeded to thehearing and determination of the petition. It dismissedthe petition. The appellant was displeased with the judg…