ADAMU JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The appellant, as a petitioner, filed a petition atthe Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Tribunal of Lagos State challenging the election or declaration and return of the 1st respondent by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th respondents as the winner of theelection and as the elected Governor of Lagos State in the nationwide general election held on 14 April 2007. The appellant was nominated as the Governorship candidate under the platform of Democratic Peoples’Alliance (DPA), while the 1st respondent ran under the platform of Action Congress (AC) in the said election. There were also about 20 (twenty) other candidates for the same office who were sponsored or nominated by various other political parties and who contested in the election. Upon the declaration of the 1st respondent as the winner of the election, the appellant, as one of the candidates who lost, was aggrieved by the result and he filed his petition complaining that the said electi…
AGBAJE
V.
FASHOLA
(2008) JELR 57484 (CA)
Court of Appeal 14 Feb 2008 Nigeria
Case
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BriefBot Summary
- The appellant filed a petition challenging the election of the 1st respondent as the Governor of Lagos State. - The appellant claimed that his photographs were not embossed on the ballot papers as required by the Electoral Act, and that t
Case Details
Suit Number:CA/L/EPT/GOV./01/2007
Judges:ISA AYA SALAM I (OFR) JCA (Presided) DALHATU ADAMU (OFR) JCA (Read the Lead Judgment) ADZIRA GANA MSHELIA JCA
Counsel:O. Ajayi SAN (with him, Chief Assam E. Assam SAN, O.C. Agbafo,
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O.O.Mbamso, O. Osonubi (Miss), O. Diya (Miss) and O.Ayanlaja) B
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- for the Appellant.
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Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN (with him, Olusegun Idowu, Enbena Amedu, Amede Oputa (Miss), Yemisi Dada (Miss)) - for the 1st Respondent.
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O. Badewole (Mrs) - for the 2nd - 4th Respondents.
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