SANGA V. A.P.C. [2024] 9 NWLR (PT. 1944) 555
ON EFFECT WHERE REGISTERED VOTER NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE
Where registered voters could not vote due to no fault of theirs, it is said that they have been disenfranchised and if their votes are such as would likely sway the outcome of the election one way or the other, a fresh election ought to be conducted. It is only then that they would have the capability of showing that if their votes had been counted their candidate would have won or influenced the outcome of the election. In the instant case, those who claimed to have been disenfranchised were less than 70 (seventy), going by the records before the court. It was therefore arithmetically impossible for them to have the capacity or capability or numeric strength to influence the outcome of the primary election. [Ubale v. Dadiya (2008) 15 NWLR (Pt.1111) 489 referred to.] (Pp. 582-583, paras. G-C).