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…To him this service is secondly to the personal service and is allowed to be used in case personal service is not easy or feasible.…

…Personal service on the respondent in any proceedings is superior and should be the mode of service most valued.…

…The dispute is that the service was not personal service upon the respondent. Now the issue is, does the law regarding election petition requires personal service?…

…, service shall be made onthe defendant in person unless he has an agent empowered to accept service, in which case service on the agent shall be sufficient”.…

…Rule 14 (2) plainly shows how service is to be effected.…

…Surely if they intended to include personal service as one of the modes of effecting service of election petitions, they could easily have stated so.…

…However, prima facie, service upon the 2nd and 4th respondents was outside the 28 days prescribed by law. I shall first address the 2nd respondent’s case. No personal service was effected.…

…Service of the petition upon the first respondent is effectively service upon the second respondent. His actions are the actions of the first respondent.The two are inseparable in law.…

…As concerns allegations about unethical conduct, details of which are not given, I will deal with those anytime the same is referred to the right organs, The Judicial Service Commission and the Ethics and Anti Corruption…