Justice Nweze: Profile Of The Dissenter In Supreme Court

Justice Chima Centus Nweze raised not a few eyebrows on Tuesday when he read a dissenting judgment in the review appeal filed by Emeke Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party. Ihedioha and his party had asked a 7-man panel headed by Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad to annul its verdict of 14 January that ousted him as Imo governor and declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress as the winner and thus the lawful governor. In the majority verdict read by Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, six members of the panel agreed…

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