JUDGMENT
EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On 25-5-2004 the appellants herein as plaintiffs commenced Suit No. A/98/2004 against the respondents herein as defendants claiming for -
(i) A declaration that the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Repeal Law 2004 is not a law of the Anambra State House of Assembly and is consequently unconstitutional null, and void.
(ii) A declaration that provision Section 2 (2) of the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Repeal Law 2004 purporting to abolish the Plaintiff's autonomous communities is unconstitutional null and void.
(iii) A declaration that the provisions of the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Repeal Law 2004 abolishing/proscribing Plaintiffs' autonomous Communities is ultra vires the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guaranteeing to the citizens, Freedom of Association.
(iv) A declaration that any repeal of the provisions of the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Law 200…