ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgement): This is an appeal against the final judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division (the trial court), delivered on the 17th of December, 2014 by Honourable Justice I. N. Auta. The judgment is at pages 380 – 467 of the Record of Appeal. Dissatisfied with the judgment, the Appellants brought this appeal vide Notice of Appeal filed on 6th March, 2015 which is at pages 468 – 474 of the Record of Appeal.
At the hearing of the appeal on 17th January, 2024, the parties adopted their respective briefs of argument. In the Appellants Brief of Argument filed on the 23rd of February, 2018, the Appellants formulated three (3) issues for determination, as follows:
- Whether the trial Court was right in overlooking the oral testimonies of the plaintiffs/Appellants witnesses, expunging Exhibits A5 and A6, and attached no evidential value to Exhibits A1, A2, A3, A4, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, A12, A13, C and C1 properly admitted and marked docu…