A. B. MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Ruling of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (the trial court), delivered by Hon. Justice K. N. Ogbonnaya on the 19th of February, 2020 in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/1117/2015.
Before the trial court, the Respondents, as Plaintiffs, filed a Writ of Summons on 18th February, 2015 claiming the following reliefs against the Appellants (as Defendants):
A declaration that the lease agreement entered into between the 1st and 2nd Plaintiffs in respect of the 1st Plaintiff’s Hotel premises at Plot No. 21, Makeni Street, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja is valid, binding and subsisting between the 1st and 2nd Plaintiffs to the exclusion of the Defendants.
A declaration that the 2nd Plaintiff is legitimately and lawfully entitled to the day to day management and running of the Hotel business of the 1st Plaintiff at the 1st Plaintiff’s Hotel premises situate at and known as and called Plot No. 21, Makeni Street, Wuse Zone…