CHIEF (HON.) NKWO NNABUCHI & ORS V. I.G.P. & ORS (2025) 8 NWLR (PT. 1993) 495
ON WHO IS AN AGGRIEVED PERSON
An aggrieved person is a party who has suffered legal grievances or a party against whom a decision has been pronounced that has wrongfully deprived him of something or wrongly refused him something or wrongly affected his right or title to something. It is the law that only a person aggrieved by a decision of a court can appeal against the same. In essence, a party to a matter cannot appeal against the decision if he has not wrongfully suffered a grievance or been deprived of an entitlement by that judgment. The two issues submitted by the appellants to the Court of Appeal were determined in their favour and the appeal was accordingly allowed in its entirety. That being the case, the appellants got what they prayed to the Court of Appeal for, hence, they were not persons aggrieved by its judgment and can therefore not appeal against same. Furthermore, the appellants were not aggrieved parties or persons aggrieved by the judgment of the Court of Appeal. [Abacha v. F.R.N. (2014) NWLR (Pt. ); Nwaogu v. Atuma 1 (2013) 9 NWLR (Pt. 1358) 113; Societe Generale Bank v. Afekoro (1999) 11 NWLR (Pt. 628) 521referred to.] (P. 512, paras. D-H).