MOHAMMED, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): When this appeal came up for hearing on 19-3-1999. it was observed that there were two distinct and separate appeals namely -
(1) The appeal by Aiyeomo Remi whose election and return by INEC as the Chairman of Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State was set aside by the Election Tribunal, and
(2) The appeal by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its officials who conducted the Local Government Elections in Ondo State including the election to the office of the Chairman of Irele Local Government Council of Ondo State which is in dispute in this appeal.
As the appeals though arose from the same proceedings of the Ondo State Local Government Election Tribunal sitting at Akure, were being handled by separate counsel representing parties whose interests are not the same and who had filed separate briefs of argument, we decided to hear the two appeals separately by giving the appeal by INEC and its officials a separa…