Case Law

On whether a returning officer can review or cancel results after declaration of same

Umar v. Labo [2013] 4 NWLR (Pt. 1345) 496 at 531, paras. A-B, per Orji-Abadua, JCA: “…It is the law that once a returning officer made a declaration of the scores of the parties and returned a candidate based on that declaration, his decision is final and cannot be reviewed even by him, but, by […]