MUNTAKA-COOMASSIE, JCA (Delivering the Lead Ruling): The respondents, Alhaji Sule Ibrahim Mashasha and 5 others were plaintiffs at the lower court and caused a writ of summons to be issued against the defendants in a representative capacity. The defendants in that court are now the applicants herein. Having obtained the leave of that court, the respondents claimed against the applicants as follows:- 1. A declaration that the illegal election of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th defendants as members of the National Executive Council of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) held at Abuja on the 23rd day of June, 2000 was unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever. 2. A declaration that the illegal convening of the Annual General
Meeting (AGM) of the IPMAN at Abuja on the 23rd day of June, 2000 without the consent of the National President was illegal, ultra vires, unconstitutional, null and void.
An order of perpetual injun…