The meaning where an enactment is alleged to be illegal, unconstitutional, null and void
"When an enactment is alleged to be illegal, unconstitutional, null and void, it means "that the authority or person who made the enactment had not the competence or legal capacity or constitutional legislative power to make the enactment." Per OBASEKI, J.S.C. (P. 84, Paras. D-E) THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF LAGOS STATE v. THE HON. JUSTICE L. J. DOSUNMU(1989) LPELR-3154(SC)
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