ESO JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In the High Court of Justice, Anambra State, holding at Enugu, the plaintiff in this case instituted an action against the defendants wherein his claim is as follows:
"1. A declaration that section 28 of the Land Use Decree does not apply to the plaintiff's deed of assignment of Plots No. M-17 and No. 09 Independence Layout Enugu registered as No. AO at Page 40 in Volume 1043 Lands Registry at Enugu or leasehold interests in the said plots.
2. A declaration that the defendants have no right or power or competence to revoke the leasehold interests of the plaintiff in the said plots for the purposes specified in the Revocation Notices dated 16th February, 1981 (Ref. No. LEN: 3007/215 and that the said leasehold interests are still subsisting."
The case went to trial and, at the address stage, Chief F. R. A. Williams (SAN) learned counsel for the plaintiff, submitted that in the light of the pleadings, there had arisen substantial questions of…