CHIEF EMMANUEL OKECHUKWU & ANOR V. CHIEF PRINCEWILL CHIMA ONYEGBU & ORS.

IBRAHIM MOHAMMED MUSA SAULAWA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): It is trite that the 2nd Respondent had on 14/4/2007 conducted election for membership in to the Atria State House of Assembly. The 3rd - 118th Respondents were the officers particularly charged by the 2nd Respondent to conduct the said election for Bende South State Constituency. Both the 1st Appellant and 1st Respondent had contested the election under the platforms of the People Democratic Party, (PDP), the 2nd Appellant and Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA). A part from the 1st Appellant and 1st Respondent, five other candidates namely: Irogbu Felix, Barr. Uche Ogbonnaya, Egum N. Emmanuel, and Olu Moris I. Nnenna, had also contested the election in question under the platforms of the Action Alliance (AA), Action Congress (AC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), respectively. At the conclusion of the said election, the 1st Respondent was declared and returned as the …