Anambra indigene becomes Abia acting CJ

AN indigene of Anambra State, Theresa Uzomaka Uzokwe, has been sworn in as the acting Chief Judge (CJ) of Abia State.

Uzokwe is the third person in Abia State to act as the CJ within the past six months. The other two that acted before Uzokwe were Ijeoma Offonry and Nnenna Chioma Oti.

While swearing in Uzokwe in the state Executive Council Chambers, the state governor, Theodore Orji, urged all the parties responsible for appointment of a substantive state CJ to expedite action on it.

Elated by her appointment, Uzokwe said: “I sincerely had no expectations nor did I consider my humble self, the appropriate person for this office, not from lack of knowledge nor other capacities but from fear of the often-orchestrated slogan ‘she is a stranger’. This today, has proved my worthy governor’s fixed reliability, when he stated in Aba some months ago that no one was a stranger in the state”.

According to her,  “although I have spent most of my life so far in Abia, had all my children in Abia and worked as state counsel, magistrate and as a High Court judge, all in Abia State, I now feel convinced that the governor has truly made me an Abia woman”.

Pledging to discharge the duties of the CJ creditably, she remarked: “I have taken my oath which I see and accept as sacrosanct and a covenant, I shall not let the governor and the people of the state down”.