VICTOR AIMEPOMO O. OMAGE, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal by the Petitioner in the Tribunal below. The Tribunal sat in Awka in Petition NO. EPT/AN/NA/HR/28/2007 for the house of representative election. The 1st respondent had raised preliminary objection to the petition of the appellant at the pre trial session on the ground inter alia that the appellant lacked the requisite standing to institute petition specifically that the appellant failed to join in the petition PDP, which party the petitioner claimed sponsored him for the election.
In furtherance of the objection made by the complainant now the 1st respondent, the petitioner aver that appellant filed his petition before the Tribunal and maintained therein in that the petitioner was a candidate for the Federal House of Representative election for Njikoka/Anocha/Dunukofia Federal Constituency which held on Saturday April 21st 2007. In the petitioner the Appellant averred that the 1st respondent Uche Ekw…