HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The instant application filed on the 26th day of May, 2022, and brought pursuant to Order 6 Rule 1 of the Court of Appeal Rules 2021 and under the inherent jurisdiction of the court prays for order of court dismissing the appellants appeal as filed with No CA/A/755/2020 with severe cost on the appellant's counsel for being an abuse of the process of court. The grounds upon which the application is founded are that:
i. The appellant's appeal with appeal number CA/A/755/2020 constitute an abuse of court process and liable to be dismissed
ii. The court is now functus officio and lacks the jurisdiction to rehear the appeal for the second time after delivering judgment on merit over this same appeal in appeal number CA/A/565/2016 by this same court.
iii. That the appeal in appeal number CA/A/565/2016 and the judgment delivered therein, constitute an estoppels over the same parties and subject matter having been decided on merit.
The app…