OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal probes into the correctness of the decision of the Federal High Court, holden at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State (hereinafter addressed as “the lower court”, coram judice: I. L. Ojukwu, J., in Suit No. FHC/UY/CS/4/2013, delivered on 27th November, 2014. Before the lower court, the appellants and the respondent were the respondents and the applicant respectively.
The facts of the case, which transformed into the appeal, are amenable to brevity and simplicity. The respondent is the landlord owner of the landed property known as No. 9m Etim Inyang Street, Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo in Akwa Ibom State. The respondent rented the property to the first appellant for a period of two years, commencing from October, 2010 to September, 2012, at the sum of N5m at the rate of N2.5m per annum. On 5th April, 2011, the respondent visited the premises to remove his things. On his entry therein, the second respondent, a servant of the first …