This Application was granted by the Court and parties were asked to join issues as to the appropriate person to whom the rent the subject matter of the dispute should be paid to. ANALYSIS BY THE COURT The facts of this case are not substantially in dispute. The Plaintiff’s claims is the sum of 14,700,000.00 ( fourteen million, seven hundred thousand naira being arrears of rent due to him from the Defendants for renting his property, (a Six No 4 bedroom flats situated at plot 307 Gabes Street, Wuse District , Abuja) between 2004 and 2008. He further claims the sum of N100, 000,000.00 (one hundred million naira only) being damages for violation of the covenant to pay rent, as well as solicitors cost of N5, 000,000.00. In their defence, the Defendants admitted the arrears of rent claimed by the Plaintiff but contended that they were willing and ready to pay the sum as at when due only to receive a letter from a third party (who subsequently asked to be joined as an intervener in the course of this suit) in demanding that the rent be paid to them. Accordingly, although the rent agreement was between them and the Plaintiff, they no longer knew the rightful person to whom the outstanding rent should be paid, hence the delay. The Defendants’ denied the claim for legal fees, N100,000,000.00 (one hundred million naira) as 15