The Imo State Chief Judge, Pascal Nnadi has distanced himself from the swearing of the new Deputy Governor of the State, Mr. Callistus Ekenze.
Ekenze was picked as the Deputy Governor yesterday after the former one, Prince Eze Madumere was impeached by the State House of Assembly.
Report had it that the state governor, Rochas Okorocha, and members of the state executive council had gathered at the Sam Mbakwe Exco Chamber, Government House, Owerri today, Tuesday to perform the swearing in of Ekenze but the Chief Judge, who is constitutionally empowered to administer the oath of office on the new deputy governor, was absent.
Another report said that an Owerri High Court had earlier in the day, stopped all parties, including the Chief Judge of the state, State House of Assembly, and the 7-man panel set up by the CJ from taking any action in the suit filed by the impeached deputy governor until the determination of the substantive case.