<p><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">OLUDOTUN ADEBOLA ADEFOPE-OKOJIE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment)</span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent">: This is an appeal from the judgment of the Imo State High Court, Owerri Judicial Division, delivered on 29th March 2018, by T.E. Chukwuemeka Chikeka J, striking out the Appellant’s Writ of Summons, on the ground of incompetence. Aggrieved, the Appellant filed a one ground Notice of Appeal. In response to the appeal, the 1st Respondent filed a Notice of Preliminary Objection on 2/11/20, arguments in respect of which are contained in the 1st Respondent’s Brief. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent">In the Notice of Preliminary Objection, the 1st Respondent sought the following: </span></p><p><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">“An order of Court dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, being incompetent and an abuse of the process of this Honourable Court” </span></strong></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent">Several grounds, numbering 10, were given in support of the Notice </span></p><p> <span style="background-color: transparent">Reacting thereto, the Appellant filed a Reply Brief on 1/2/21 to the Notice. In it, learned Appellant’s Counsel, E.E. Chukwuka, Esq contended that the Preliminary Objection…</span></p>