BADA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is a consolidated appeal against the judgment of the Governorship/Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Enugu in the Enugu State of Nigeria delivered on 18 January 2008. The following appeals were consolidated with this appeal i.e. CA/E/EPT/14A/2008, CA/E/EPT/14B/2008 and CA/E/EPT/14C/2008 by the order of this court made on 22 May 2008. Briefly, the facts of the case are that the Governorship election was conducted in Enugu on 14 and 28 April 2007. The appellants were the Governorship and Deputy Governorship candidates respectively of the Peoples’Democratic Party.
The 1st respondent was also a Governorship candidate who contested the election on the platform of Action Congress (AC).
At the end of the polls from the 13 (thirteen) Local Government A Areas where election was held on 14 April 2007 and that of the four (4) Local Government Areas of Enugu State i.e. (Enugu South, Udi, Nsukka and Isi-Uzo Local GovernmentAreas) …