ELFRIEDA OLUWAYEMISI WILLIAMS-DAWODU, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgement): This is an appeal against the decision of the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Plateau State, in Petition No. EPT /PL/HR/09/2023 wherein the Tribunal on September 13th 2023 declared the qualification of the 1st Respondent as sponsored by the 2nd Respondent as null and void based on the non-compliance of the 2nd Respondent with a subsisting order of the Plateau State High Court, that the votes to him were for that reason illegal and wasted and declared and returned the 3rd Respondent as the winner of the Election conducted by the 5th Respondent on February 25th 2023.
The gist of facts that culminated into the appeal was that the 1st Appellant, the 1st Respondent and the 3rd Respondent along with others participated in the said February 25th 2023 Election by the 5th Respondent. The 1st Respondent was declared winner of the Election and being aggrieved thereby, the Appellants pe…