HON. EL-SHEILK IBRAHIM HON. AGABA PETER HON. SUNDAY UJIH HON. JOHN IYO HON. JONATHAN ALOHO HON. TERFA ADE HON. NICHOLAS ABAKPA HON. PIUS AMEDU MATHEW HON. INNOCENT ABAYILO HON. JONATHAN ASEUN HON. VEMBE JOHN HON. TSEREN NYITAR HON. SUGHNEN UDE HON. KUNDE SHIAONDO HON. SOLOMON ONAH HON. EMMANUEL SEMBER HON. DICKSON OHIA HON. IGBASWUE ZAKI HON. PAULINE SEGEOR HON. EMMANUEL IKYAATOR HON. ANTHONY ODOH HON. GODWIN UNUM HON. AKAAHAN RAYMOND HON. BEM GBAKAAN HON. FIDELIS NYIYONGO HON. AMODU MUSA HON. HARRY ADEKONYE HON. ATIME MATHEW V. HON. GODWIN AUGUSTINE HON. TSAV DAVID HON. CHARLES ADAMU HON. STEPHEN AKO HON. ABU UMARU HON. STEPHEN EJE HON. PAUL NGBEDE HON. AKO JOSEPH HON. EMMANUEL ADUWE HON. SABINA E. EJEMBI HON. MOSES ANLIOGH HON. TITUS TOREBEGH HON. THOMAS ITI HON. BARTHOLOMEW OKO HON. FRANCIS OGWUCHE HON. MOHAMMED YELWA HON. MOLID SAM HON. SIMON ORIJIME J. HON. UCHAHA PASCAL HON. MARK-PETERS IKYAV HON. ORTSUEN IHAMIKEHE HON. JAMES ACHIHIGA HON. GBAGIR JAMES HON. BEM GBANDE HON. AMOGEMA PATRICK HON. HANGEIOR TARKA HON. TERVER MTSEEN HON. IGBAWASE ZAKI HON. SIMON ORJIME HON. AWUAPILLA SACHIA HON. SHOMWUA WAGHHANGE HON. JOHN VEMBE HON. JAPHETH UJA HON. SAMUEL AGADA HON. SHIMA IORZAA HON. SOLOMON JATO HON. VINCENT BARROS HON. JOSEPH YONGO HON. IORWA NGUEIBO HON. MOSES OGBU V. J. S. OKUTEPA ESQ.
(2014) JELR 57491 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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CA/MK/119/2011
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13 Feb 2014
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Nigeria
Coram
OYEBISI FOLAYEMI OMOLEYE JCA (Presided)
MOHAMMED A. DANJUMA JCA
OBANDE F. OGBUINYA JCA ( Read the Lead Judgment)
Appearances
S. O. Okpale, Esq. (with him, Miss Chituru Ndamati) for the Appellants;
Olumuyiwa Akinboro, Esq. (with him, M. O. Uzueh, Esq., D. M. Tsevende, Esq. and S. U. Akoh, Esq.) for the Respondent.
Judgement
OGBUINYA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal quarrels with the correctness of the decision of the High Court of Benue State in suit No. MHC/74/2009, coram A. O. Onum J., delivered on 24 September 2010, against the appellants. The appellants and the respondents were the respective plaintiffs and defendant therein.
The facts of the case whence the appeal germinated, are straight forward and brief. The appellants, inter alia , were the duly elected councillors of the various Local Government Areas in Benue State. Their tenure was for three years - April 2004 to March 2006. Sometime in 2006, the Benue State Government determined their tenure prematurely. Being peeved by that, they approached the lower court for redress and engaged the services of the respondent, a legal practitioner, who wears the prestigious rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The said lower court declared the action of the Benue State Government null, void and unconstitutional and ordered that the appel…
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