{"id":106589,"date":"2023-07-31T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=106589"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:25:45","slug":"breaking-prominent-supreme-court-justice-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-prominent-supreme-court-justice-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Prominent Supreme Court Justice Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">One of the popular Supreme Court Justices, Justice Chima Centus (CC) Nweze has been reported dead.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Justice Nwaeze died on Sunday at 64.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Supreme Court is yet to confirm his death at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nwaeze became very popular following his dissenting judgment in 2020 which declared Emeka Ihedioha of the People Democratic Party winner of the 2019 Governorship election in Imo State against the decision of majority of the panel.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the Justice among the panel who refused Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar\u2019s request to inspect the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s server while challenging President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s victory in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in a split judgement of three-against-two, Nweze delivered the controversial judgement of the Supreme Court which declared then Senate President, Ahmad Lawan as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Yobe North Senatorial District for the 25 February general election.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nweze, a native of Obollo, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, was born on September 25, 1958.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn 2014, Former President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s administration approved the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to appoint Nweze to the supreme court.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the popular Supreme Court Justices, Justice Chima Centus (CC) Nweze has been reported dead. 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