RHODES-VIVOUR, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant as plaintiff sued the respondents as defendants in the Federal High Court, Abuja claiming the following reliefs:
(1) A declaration that the compulsory retirement of the plaintiff by the 1st defendant through a letter (ref. NA/278/1/A) dated 18/6/01 is illegal, null and void, as it was based on a criterium that never existed.
(2) An order reinstating the plaintiff as a Captain of the Nigerian Army and directing an accelerated promotion of the plaintiff to the rank of a full Colonel or any other rank that he would have attained if the 1st defendant had not stagnated his growth in the Nigerian Army.
Alternatively:
N130,000,000.00 (One hundred and thirty million Naira) being general damages against the defendants for loss of expectation in the plaintiff's chosen career as a result of the illegal action of the defendants, and for the trauma and psychological torture suffered by the plaintiff as a result of the illegal a…