EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, J.C.A. :(Delivering the Leading Judgment): The general election to the office of member of the House of Representatives for Anambra East/Anambra West Federal constituency held on 28-3-2015. 12 candidates contested the election. The appellant contested the election on the platform of the 2nd respondent. The 1st respondent contested the election as the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, a registered Political Party in Nigeria. At the conclusion of the election, the appellant was declared to have the majority of lawful votes cast in the election (19,065 votes), declared the winner of the election and returned elected as member representing Anambra East/Anambra West Federal constituency in the House of Representatives. The 1st respondent who was declared to have secured 16,965 lawful votes, coming second after the appellant, was dissatisfied with the declared result of the election.
On 17-4-2015, the 1st respondent filed an election petition in the Anambra State …