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(2016) JELR 40790 (CA)

Court of Appeal 8 Jun 2016 Nigeria
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- The dispute centered on the leadership of the Okwu Uratta Improvement League (OUIL), where the claimant (Respondent) sought declarations that the Appellant’s tenure as President-General had expired by virtue of the OUIL Constitution, that

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Suit Number:CA/OW/37/2014
Judges:ITA GEORGE MBABA Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria PETER OLABISI IGE Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria FREDERICK OZIAKPONO OHO Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:C. O. Odorogbuo, Esq. For Appellant Chief C. C. Onyeagbako with him, C. G. Okpara (Mrs) For Respondent

ITA GEORGE??MBABA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment):??Appellant filed this appeal against the judgment of the Imo State High Court, in Suit HOW/311/2013, delivered on 9/10/2013 by Hon. Justice Duruoha-Igwe, wherein the trial Court granted the reliefs sought by the claimant (now Respondent) in his Originating Summons.

At the Lower Court the claimant had posed the following questions for determination:

1. Whether by the provisions of Okwu Uratta Improvement League (OUIL) Constitution, the tenure of Office of the Defendant and the Executive members elected with him in 2008 has not expired, having served for three years from December 26th 2008 to December 26th 2011.

2. Whether the Defendant and the Executive members elected with him on 26/12/2008 by the convention of the Okwu Uratta Improvement League can validly remain in office after 26/12/2011.

3. Whether the Executives of Okwu Uratta Improvement League led by the Defendant was officially dissolved by the decision of the League on …

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