MUKHTAR, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The petitioner’s petition against the respondents in the Legislative Houses Election Tribunal holden at Maiduguri is that the 1st respondent was not qualified to contest the 2003 general election to the House of Assembly on the platform of the A ANPP. In the petition are the following salient averments, with the particulars of disqualification: Your petitioner is challenging the return of the 1st respondent as declared by the respondents on the ground that:
The 1st respondent is disqualified and not qualified to run for the Borno State House of Assembly election, Kala Balge Constituency at the time of the election as he was, at the said time and up till now under a legal/ constitutional incapacity which prevents him from contesting for and holding the office of the member of Bo rn o State Ho us e of Ass em bly, Kala Balge Constituency. PARTICULARS OF DISQUALIFICATION
The first respondent presented a false or forged certificate to the 2nd …