OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal probes into the correctness of the decision of the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, holden at Uyo (hereinafter addressed as “the lower court”), coram judice: Godwin J. Abraham, CJ, in Suit No. HU/357/2018, delivered on 14th February, 2019. Before the lower court, the appellants and the respondents were the claimants and the defendants respectively.
The facts of the case, which transformed into the appeal, are amenable to brevity and simplicity. The appellants and the second respondent are members of the first respondent: one of the front line registered political parties in Nigeria. The first respondent issued Guidelines for the conduct of its wards, local government and state congresses. In line with the Constitution and Guidelines of the first respondent, the ward and local government congresses were, duly, conducted on 5th May, 2018 and 15th May, 2018 respectively. The congresses produced the first appellant as…