OMO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In this application the respondent/appellant is seeking leave of this court to appeal against two rulings/decisions delivered by the Warri Division of the Bendel State High Court presided over by Honourable Justice Omoluabi on the 16th February, 1988 and 1st March, 1988.
These two decisions in respect of which leave to appeal is now being sought here were made in the course of the hearing of an election petition filed by the petitioner/respondent against the result of the Local Government elections held in the Bomadi Local Government Area in December, 1987.
The relevant facts for a full appreciation of the issues raised in this appeal may be stated as follows:
The petitioner and the respondent were two of the seven candidates who were duly nominated and contested for the post of Chairman of the Bomadi Local Government Council in the Local Government elections which took place on the 12th December, 1987.
Before the result of this election …