BULKACHUWA, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This case originated at the High Court, where by a writ of summons dated the 28th day of September, 1995 the appellant, then the plaintiff, claimed against the respondents, as defendants, the following reliefs: A declaration that there existed a contract agreement between the plaintiff and the first defendant, which contract the first defendant has breached;
(2) Refund of the balance sum of N530,000.00 (Five Hundred and Thirty Thousand Naira), being balance of the purchase price to be paid by the first defendant to the plaintiff for the house bought by the former from the latter as special damages; The plaintiff avers that by virtue of the fundamental breach of A the agreement by the first defendant, he has suffered inconvenience and untold hardship ; The plaintiff is therefore claiming from the first to sixth defendants jointly and severally the sum of N20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Naira only) as general damages for the inconvenience an…