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Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that<br />
the plaintiff is not an ordinary person in the street.<br />
He was at the material time to this suit a Chairman<br />
of a political party, a presidential candidate, a tax<br />
payer, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and has also<br />
sworn to an Oath under the Legal Practitioners Act<br />
(LPA), 1975 to support and uphold the Constitution<br />
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<br />
He contended that the Legal Practitioners Act, Cap.<br />
207, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990 is an<br />
existing Law pursuant to section 315 of the<br />
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,<br />
1999.<br />
Learned counsel argued that a person who has the<br />
civil right and obligation to sue in the instance<br />
under adjudication is clear under section 6(6)(b) of<br />
the Constitution.<br />
He contended that the operative phrase in this<br />
constitutional provision is civil rights and<br />
obligations and a cursory look at their meanings<br />
will shed more light on the locus standi of the<br />
appellant.<br />
He referred the court on the meaning of civil rights<br />
and obligations to the case of Okechukwu v.<br />
Etukokwu (1998) 8 NWLR (Pt. 562) page 513 at<br />
526.<br />
Learned counsel argued that in this case, it is clear<br />
from the provisions of section 6(6)(b) of the<br />
Constitution that actions are only competent<br />
between persons and Governments or between two<br />
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