A. O. EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is from the judgment of the Court below following an appeal to that Court from the High Court of Kwara State in the Omu-Aran judicial Division. In that Court the plaintiff, who is now the appellant, sought for a declaratory order that he is the rightful Ejemu of Rore and for an injunction prohibiting the second to fifth defendants/respondents from appointing or installing the first defendant/respondent as Ejemu of Rore.
At the trial Court pleadings were ordered, filed and served, and with the leave of the Court, the appellant amended his claim. In the course of the trial, the appellant did not himself testify, but he called three witnesses in support of his claim. For the respondents five witnesses testified in support of their case. At the end of the hearing and addresses by learned counsel, the learned trial judge dismissed the claim of the appellant. As he was not satisfied with that decision, he appealed to the …