YARGATA BYENCHIT NIMPAR, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, delivered on the 29th of November, 2022 by HON. JUSTICE AKINTAYO ALUKO wherein the Court below dismissed the case for want of jurisdiction. Piqued by the decision, the Appellant filed a Notice of Appeal on the 8th of December, 2022 setting out 3 Grounds of Appeal.
Facts relevant to the appeal are amenable to brief summary. The Appellants claimed to be candidates of the 2nd Respondent who emerged winners in the primary elections of the 2nd Respondent for the 2023 general election as members representing their respective Federal Constituencies and Senatorial Districts in Ogun State. It was contended that names of the Appellants names were forwarded by the 2nd Respondent to the 1st Respondent to be published as candidates of the 2nd Respondent to contest the 2023 general election, but that due to network disruption, the names of the Appellan…