NJC extends tenure of Adamawa's acting Chief Judge

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NJC extends tenure of Adamawa€™s acting Chief Judge

THE National Judicial Council (NJC), on Wednesday, re-appointed Justice Ambrose Mamadi as the acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State for another three-month term, thereby compounding the woes of the embattled governor of the state, Murtala Nyako.

The council, at its meeting presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, approved the request of Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako, for acting tenure extension for Mamadi.

The governor's request had been placed before the council before the impeachment saga broke out.

The previous three-month acting period for Justice Mamadi ended on Tuesday, while the state had been without a substantive CJ for about two and a half years.

The state governor, who has been facing impeachment threat, had declared Monday and Tuesday of this week as work free days, a measure seen by political pundits as aimed at forestalling the acting CJ from inaugurating the impeachment panel before the expiration of his acting tenure on July 8.

The governor's permutations have failed to work out as the inauguration went on as planned and the acting CJ has been reappointed as requested by Nyako before the current logjam.