CHIEF UCHE OKOROJI V. MAZI NNANNA NGWU & ORS

NDOMA-EGBA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Appellant, Chief Uche Okoroji, appeals against the judgment of the National Assembly Election Tribunal in Abia State, dated the 28th of September, 1992 whereby the 1st Respondent on record, Mazi Nnanna Ngwu, was confirmed as a duly elected member of the Federal House of Representatives for Arochukwu (Abia State). Appellant contested the seat on the platform of the Social Democratic Party. The 1st Respondent was for the National Republican Party. Upon full consideration of the evidence and careful examination of the legal authorities cited by counsel on both sides for its guidance, the Tribunal below found, as fact in course of its judgment that the appellant's allegations were "totally baseless, unsubstantiated and lacking in merit". In consequence, it dismissed appellant's petition and confirmed the election of the 1st Respondent, Mazi Nnanna Ngwu as the duly elected member of the House of Representatives for thy Arochukwu Federal…