A. I. IGUH, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The proceedings leading to this appeal were first initiated in the High Court of Justice, Rivers State, holden at Port Harcourt on the 30th day of April, 1986. In that court, the three plaintiffs, the 2nd and 3rd suing as the administrators of the estate of the late Patrick Okereke Okoye, had claimed against the defendant as follows:-
"(1) A declaration that the 1st plaintiff is the lessee of the leasehold property known as Plot 153, Gborokiri Layout, Port Harcourt otherwise known as No.22, Etehe Street, Gborokiri (Borokiri) Port Harcourt.
(2) A declaration that the said lease registered as No.2 at page 2 in volume 297 in the Lands Registry at Enugu, now Port Harcourt is still subsisting.
(3) A declaration that the purported sale or transfer of the said Plot 153, Gborokiri Layout, Port Harcourt to the defendant by the Rivers State Government is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
(4) A declaration that the purported cancell…