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The NJC, on Wednesday, voided the appointment of the acting chief judge of Imo State for being in violation of the Nigerian Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n The Imo State Government<\/a><\/strong> has agreed to comply with the directive of the National Judicial Council<\/a><\/strong> (NJC) that it should reverse the appointment of Theophilus Nzeukwu as the acting chief judge of the state.<\/p>\n The NJC, on Wednesday, voided Mr Nzeukwu’s appointment for being in violation of the Nigerian Constitution.<\/p>\n The council consequently asked Governor Hope…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The NJC, on Wednesday, voided the appointment of the acting chief judge of Imo State for being in violation of the Nigerian Constitution. The Imo State Government has agreed to comply with the directive of the National Judicial Council (NJC) that it should reverse the appointment of Theophilus Nzeukwu as the acting chief judge of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9963,6510,9137,4357,9319,7511,257,4687,393,37034,12763,7287,254],"class_list":["post-197444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backtracks","tag-chief","tag-directive","tag-govt","tag-imo","tag-judge","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-njcs","tag-obey","tag-pledges","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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