SAKA ADEYEMI IBIYEYE, OFR, J.C.A (Delivered the Leading Judgment): It is now common knowledge that general elections were held into several elective offices throughout the thirty-six component States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 14th day of April, 2007. One of the elective offices into which the election took place was the Ika South Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly in Asaba. At the election into the said constituency, three candidates who were Kainji Aluge-Obia,. Ikpade Oyibo Jacob and Martin Okonta contested and were respectively sponsored by the Action Congress (AC), Democratic Peoples Party and Peoples Democratic Party.
At the conclusion of the election on the 14th day of April, 2007 the Electoral Officer for the Ika South Local Government Area (the 4th respondent) declared Martin Okonta (the 1st respondent) the winner having scored 59,477 votes followed by Ikpade Oyibo Jacob who scored 634 votes to be in the second position while Kainji Aluge-Obia (th…