BULKACHUWA , JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The appellant as the petitioner filed a petition dated 2/7/03 before the National Assembly,
Governorship/Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal Minna, Niger
State c hallenging the return of the 1st respo ndent as the member representing Chanchaga Constituency in the Niger State House of Assembly on the platform of the PDP. The appellant who contested the election on the platform of the PRP and scored 4,824 votes as against the 1st respondent’s 19,679 votes challenged the said election on the following grounds: That the 1st respondent was at the time of the election not qualified to stand for the said election, in that he did not possess school certificate and/or was not educated to school certificate level. 2. The allegation that the 1st respondent obtained his first school leaving certificate from Giwa Gbada Primary School in 1989, could not be true for by the said date, the school either was not in existence or had not started …