ALHAJI (CHIEF) AYOTUNDE SERIKI V. SEFIU OLUKOREDE ARE & ORS

ADEREMI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The amended election petition presented before the lower court by the petitioner/appellant (Alhaji (Chief) Ayotunde Seriki) against the first respondent/cross-appellant (Sefiu Olukorede Are) and the second to the fourth respondents was predicated on two grounds. The petitioner/appellant contested election for the Chairman of Epe Local Government Council, Lagos State on the 5th of December, 1998 on the platform of Alliance for Democracy (A.D.) against the first respondent/cross-appellant who vied for the said election on the ticket of All Peoples Party (A.P.P.). The conduct of the said local government elections was under the control, direction and supervision of the fourth respondent whose agents officers and/or servants, for the purpose of the said election were the second and third respondents.

The grounds on which the amended petition was founded are two; they are in the following terms less the particulars:-

1. The first responde…