LOCUS STANDI: Nature of the legal concept of locus standi- CHIDI B. NWORIKA v. MRS. ANN ONONEZE-MADU & ORS(2019) LPELR-46521(SC)
HELD:
"...beyond analogical inferences or conjectures, the issue of locus standi is the actual legal capacity of instituting or commencing an action in a competent Court of law without inhibition, obstruction or hindrance from any person or body whatsoever, See INAKOJU VS ADELEKE (2007) ALL FWLR (Pt. 353) 1 at 96; THOMAS VS OLUFOSOYE (1986) 2 SC 325, MOMOH VS JIMO OLOTU (1979) ALL NLR 117, at 123, A.G. ANAMBRA VS EBOH (supra). Locus Standi is a condition precedent to instituting an action before a Court of law.
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