ABDU ABOKI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In compliance with the provision of section 116(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended the 3rd Respondent conducted an election into the Kaduna State House of Assembly on the 28th April, 2011. The record of Appeal disclosed that both the 1st Appellant and the 1st respondent were amongst the candidates that contested the election for Makarfi Constituency.
The 1st Respondent was returned and declared the winner of the election having scored 29,754 votes while the 1st Appellants scored 22,078 votes. Dissatisfied with the result of the election and the return of the 1st Respondent as the winner of the Election, the 1st and 2nd Appellants filed a petition at the Kaduna State National and State Houses of Assembly election petition Tribunal.
The grounds of the petition without their particulars are as follows:
"Your 1st petitioner relies on the following grounds in justification of his complaints of the …