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AKINTAN, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Ruling): The applicant, Marcel Ijeoma Ogwuegbu, was a petitioner/cross-appellant in the appeal in this suit which was disposed of by this court on 16/3/99. The appeal was in respect of an election petition filed after the 10th respondent (INEC) had announced the result of the election held for the chairmanship of Ihitte/Uboma Local Government on 5/12/98. The appeal filed against the decision of the Local Government Election Tribunal was dismissed and the judgment of the tribunal was affirmed. The present applicant was a candidate at the election. He was also a party to the petition before the tribunal and the subsequent appeal in this court in the matter. He was in fact a cross-appellant in the appeal.
The applicant has, in his motion dated 12th April, 1999 and filed in the registry of this court on the same day, prayed the court for the following reliefs:
"to review its judgment delivered on the 16th day of March, 1999 for the purpose of corre…