ABUBAKAR JEGA ABDUL-KADIR, J.C.A.: (Delivering the leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Ruling of the Imo State High Court sitting at Owerri delivered on the 10th January 2005 dismissing the Appellants' application to dismiss the Suit filed by the Plaintiffs on the grounds that the lower Court lacks Jurisdiction to entertain the Suit, that the Suit discloses no cause of action, that the Plaintiffs lack the locus standi to bring the action.
The facts leading to this appeal as can be gathered from the record of proceedings before the Court are thus:-
The Plaintiffs (now 1st and 2nd Respondents) commenced an action at the Owerri High Court seeking the following declaratory reliefs:
I. That the 1st Plaintiff who is from Aboha Ohii is a person entitled under the native law and custom of Ohii and under the Imo State of Nigeria Traditional Rulers and Autonomous Communities law 1999 to be the Eze of Ohii autonomous Community.
II. Declaration of the Court that Aboha village being …