YARGATA BYENCHIT NIMPAR, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This Appeal is against the Judgment of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja High Court presided over by HON. JUSTICE O. A. ADENIYI and delivered on the 20th day of March, 2015. Dissatisfied with the decision, the Appellant who was the Claimant at the trial Court filed a Notice of Appeal on the 1/4/2015 setting out 2 Grounds of Appeal.
Facts relevant to the Appeal are straight forward and amenable to a brief summary. The Appellant as claimant initiated the suit by way of a Writ of Summons which sought the following reliefs:
A declaration that the Plaintiff is the allottee of Plot 261 in Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama, and that Plot 4111. 2978 and 3560 abuts Plaintiff's Plot 261 in Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama.
A declaration that:
a. Plot 4111, Cadastral Zone, Maitama, allotted to Hadiza Bala Usman (1st Defendant), Plot 2978 Cadastral Zone, Maitama, allotted to Hauwa Sule Umaru (2nd Defendant); and Plot 3560 (renumbered as Plot 459…