Our reporter/ Justice Chima Centus Nweze, of the supreme court, is dead.
The highly principled jurist was the sole dissenting voice in the infamous judgement that produced Hope Uzodimma as the governor of Imo State.
According to family sources, the justice, who was discharged from the hospital recently, died on Sunday evening.
Nweze was the fifth most senior justice of the court of apex court.
The jurist, who was born on September 25, 1958, bagged all his degrees – from bachelors to Ph.D – from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN).
He attended St John Cross Seminary, Nsukka between 1972 and 1977.
Nweze was called to the bar in 1984 and completed his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme in Bauchi in 1985.
He became a judge of Enugu state high court in 1995.
He has served as chairman of Ogun state governorship and legislative houses election petition tribunal in 1999; chairman, robbery and firearms tribunal, Nsukka, 1998 and 1999; and member, Ondo state local government election petition tribunal in 1999.
On February 15, 2008, he was elevated to the court of appeal and served until October 2014, when he was elevated to the supreme court of Nigeria on October 29, 2014.
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