SAKA ADEYEMI IBIYEYE, J.C.A., OFR, (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal was prompted by the judgment of the National Assembly/Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal Umuahia in Abia State delivered on the 25th February, 2008.
At the election which took place in all the constituent States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and particularly in Abia State on the 14th of April, 2008, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) respectively fielded Chief Onyema Ugochukwu and Chief Theodore Ahamefule Orji and their deputies as their candidates for the said election. It is worthy of note that nineteen other political parties sponsored candidates for the same election.
At the close of voting and particularly the day after, that is to say on the 15th day of April, 2007, one Mr. E. E. Enabor announced the results that the candidate of the PPA, Chief T. A. Orji, is returned as the elected Governor of Abia State by scoring 265,389…