OJU & ORS
V.
DOPAMU & ORS
PATRICK IBE AMAIZU, J.C.A. (Delivering the leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling of Honourable Justice J. T. Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting at the Ilorin Division of the Court. The ruling was delivered on the 5th day of October, 2001.
I think it is necessary for a clear understanding of the issues raised in the plaintiffs' suit, which the lower court was called upon to decide, to state although in outline, the history of the litigation now before the court. The plaintiffs' suit was instituted against the defendants by an originating summons. In the said suit, the plaintiffs raised ten questions for determination by the lower court. They also asked for fourteen reliefs. For reasons which will become obvious later in this judgment, I consider it necessary to reproduce the said reliefs sought by the plaintiffs. They are -
"1. A declaration that the purported appointment of the 1st defendant as the Acting dean of the Faculty of Arts of University of Ilorin by t…