SANKEY JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): Dr. Reuben

Tolorunleke, theappellant, filed an action against the respondents, Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute, (hereinafter referred to as ARMTI), at the Federal High Court on the 23 July 2007 seeking the following relief:

A declaration that the purported termination of the plaintiff’s appointment on 10 February 2004, by virtue of the defendant’s letter dated 11 February 2004 is ultra vires, wrong in law, null , void and of no effect.

(b) An order on thedefendant to reinstate the plaintiff to his former position in the institute before the wrongful termination with all necessary entitlement that would have accrued to him had he not been so wrongfully terminated.

Alternatively

(c) A declaration that the plaintiff having been engaged in a pensionable employment with the defendant for a continuous period of twelve (12) years apart from the ten (10) years of service transferred from the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to th…