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• ELECTORAL MATTERS: Primary Election – Duty of the National Executive Committee of a political party to organise Primary Elections – Whether a state chapter can decide the mode of primary election to be adopted

  “It is trite that primary elections of political parties are to be conducted by the National Executive Council (NEC). See Section 84(5)(b)(i) of the Electoral Act, 2022. Article 13.4 of…

• ELECTORAL MATTERS: Election Tribunal - Importance of the position of the Chairman of an Election Tribunal

  "The position of a chairman of an Election tribunal is very important, in that no legally valid quorum could be formed without him. By the provisions of Section 285(4) of…

• APPEAL – Amendment of Notice of Appeal – The essence of amendment of Notice of Appeal

  “the known essence of an amendment of a Notice of Appeal is to place before the appellate court, the real, genuine and complete grievances in the form of grounds of…

• ELECTION PETITION - ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR OF A STATE - Condition that must be satisfied by a petitioner to succeed in an election petition with regards to an election to the office of governor of a State

  "The Section of the 1979 Constitution that has to be satisfied by the petitioner to succeed is Section 164 (7). Section 164 (7) of the 1979 Constitution reads: "A candidate…

• PLEADINGS – Amendment – The retrospective nature of amendment – Duty of Court to deem amendment to have been inserted from the beginning

  “The Respondent's learned Counsel further argued at paragraph 4.7. that "the Appellants did not seek to amend their statement of claim until after the close of the trial and indeed…