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• ELECTION PETITION - Election Result - Whether an amendment to an election return will make an election result invalid

  "I find myself therefore unable to accept the submission of the learned counsel for the appellant that because returning officers amended and altered the returns Exhibits C to V from…

• ELECTION PETITION - Election Result - Whether an amendment to an election return will make an election result invalid

  "...Furthermore, I consider irrelevant the decision in Okunola v. Ogundiran (1961) All NLR 394 upon which learned counsel heavily relied on the alleged alteration of the election return. In that…

• ELECTION PETITION - Election Result - Whether an amendment to an election return will make an election result invalid

  "It is against this background that the petitioner's eight grounds of appeal must be considered. In grounds one, two and three Mr. Fola Akinrinsola, learned counsel to the petitioner complains…

• ELECTION PETITION - Election Result - Whether an amendment to an election return will make an election result invalid

  "...He however made a heavy weather both in his brief and oral submissions before us of what he referred to as the principal question for determination in this appeal that…

• ELECTORAL MATTERS - PRESENTATION OF AN ELECTION PETITION - The position of the law in relation to persons entitled to present an election petition and those who should be respondents

  "See Section 119 of the Electoral Act 1982. Section 121(1) and (2)(a) and (b) of the Electoral Act specifies the persons entitled to present election petition and those who should…