FACTS OF THE CASEThis appeal is against the judgment of the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal, Delta State, sitting in Asaba, Delta State. The 3rd Respondent declared the 1st Respondent winner of the election and duly returned. Being dissatisfied with the declaration by the 3rd Respondent, the Appellants filed a petition before the Lower Tribunal. At the close of the case, the Tribunal delivered its judgment dismissing the Appellants’ Petition for lacking in merit. In the instant case, the wrong heading of the Lower Tribunal in the Appellants’ petition did not fetter the jurisdictional competence of the Lower Tribunal to hear and determine the Appellants’ Petition as it did on the merit.

Source: The Guardian December 24, 2019 02:15 UTC