Tobi, JSC stated as follows in EJEZIE vs. ANUWU (2008) 12 NWLR (PT 1101) 446 at 485: “Generally an innocuous one granted as a matter of routine. This is because of the state of our adjectival law that parties should have free hand to change persons in the litigation process. And so applications for substitution do not generally give any problem …”
DEFINITION OF SUBSTITUTION
In PERETU vs. GARIGA (2012) LPELR (15534) (SC) 1 at 25, Ngwuta, JSC stated: “Substitute, a noun, means ‘a person or thing that you use or have instead of the one you normally use or have’ … the word ‘substitute’ as … ‘one who stands in another’s place.’ ‘Substitution … as ‘A designation of a person or thing to take the place of another person or thing; the process by which one person or thing takes the place of another person or thing.”