SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal by the Appellant who was the Petitioner at the Governorship/National Assembly and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal, Osun State, sitting at Oshogbo in Petition No. HA/EPT/OS/18/2007 against the judgment of the Tribunal Coram:- Honourable Justices T.D. Naron, S. Mohammed, J.N. Akpughunum, A. T. Badamosi, J. E. Ekanem, delivered on the 12th of May, 2008, wherein the Honourable Tribunal dismissed the petition as lacking in merit.
The facts leading up to this appeal are briefly set out as follows:-
"Elections were conducted into the Osun State House of Assembly on the 14th April, 2007. The Appellant, a member of the Action Congress (A.C.) contested the seat for Ife East Constituency. At the conclusion of the election, the 3rd to 9th Respondents declared the 1st Respondent who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (P.D.P.) as the winner. The Appellant was dissatisfied with the outcome of th…