JUDGMENT AND ORDER – REASON FOR JUDGMENT – Whether an appellate Court is concerned with the correctness of the decision of the Court from which the appeal it is handling has emanated and not the reasons given

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“…However, it is not the reasons for a judgment but the correctness of the decision that matters. In MTN V. CORPORATE COMMUNICATION INVESTMENT LTD (2019) LPELR-47042(SC) Pp. 18-19, paras. F-B, this Court held thus: “As rightly submitted by learned counsel for the respondent, an appellate Court is more concerned with whether the decision reached by the lower Court is correct and not necessarily whether a wrong reason was given for reaching a right decision. See Arisa Vs The State (1988) 3 NWLR (Pt. 83) 386, Ojengbede vs Esan & Anor. (2001) 18 NWLR (Pt. 746) 771. If the decision is right, it will be upheld notwithstanding the fact that a wrong reason was given for the decision. It is only where the misdirection has caused the Court to come to a wrong decision that it would be material. See Oladele & Ors Vs Aromolaran II & Ors. (1996) 6 NWLR (Pt.453) 180.” Per HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMIJU, JSC in NIDB & ANOR v. KAN BISCUITS CO. LTD (2022-LCER-46534-SC) (Pp 17 – 18; Paras F – D)

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