CHIEF OBIOMA O. A. MGBOJI & ORS V. CHIEF C. B. C. AJUZIEOGU & ORS

PETER OLABISI IGE, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the decision of the High Court of Abia State contained in the Ruling of the Honourable Justice C. C. Thomas Adiele delivered on 30th day of July, 2012.The Appellants had by Paragraph 27 of their Amended Statement of Claim prayed the Lower Court as follows:

??27. WHEREFORE THE PLAINTIFFS jointly and severally claim as follows:

i) A DECLARATION that the 1st Plaintiff is the duly selected and accepted person by the Umumgboji Village and the Obuda Aba Community as the ULELU II of Obuda Aba Community according to Custom and Tradition of the Obuda Aba people.

ii) AN ORDER directing the Defendants to recognize him as such and to set the machinery in Motion for his presentation, recognition and issuance of Staff of Office in accordance with the relevant Laws in Abia State.

iii) A PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the 2nd - 5th Defendants from presenting and or recognizing any other person than the 1st Plaintiff as t…