OGUNTADE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Lead Ruling): The present applicants were not parties in the suit at the lower court out of which this interlocutory appeal arose. They have now brought this application asking to be joined as interested parties in the proceedings.
In paragraphs 4 - 12 of the affidavit in support of the application, it was deposed thus:
"4. That following series of meetings and deliberations between the applicants on the one hand and the plaintiffs and the defendant on the other, it became imperative for the applicants to seek to be joined in this matter as the proceedings instituted in the matter some five years ago had so far produced no head or tail and had led nowhere as far as the applicants are concerned who are keen and desperate to be paid what the Federal Military Government had paid as compensation for the acquired land which belonged to them under Yoruba Native Law and Custom.
5. That the 4th to the 10th applicants are the Traditional Rulers and Community…