HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgement): This appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, delivered on the 6th of September, 2022 in Appeal No CA/A/283/2019. The first and second Respondents commenced the action leading up to this appeal in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory as the claimants and the Appellant and the third Respondent were the defendants. The first and second Respondents claimed for different sums of monies due to them on four different contracts awarded to them by the Appellant and for damages for breach of contract.
It was their case on the pleadings that the Appellant awarded two contracts known as Jarkurn Project and Agoloma Project to the first Respondent and also two contracts known as Obokun Project and Batagarawa Project to the second Respondent. It was their case that they had respectively completed their obligations under each of the four different contracts but that the Appellant failed to…