A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has died at the age of 85.

A statement from the family said Ezeife died at the Federal Medical Centre in Abuja yesterday.

Born on November 20, 1938, the deceased fondly called ‘Okwadike’, was governor of Anambra state during the aborted Third Republic between January 1992 to November 1993.

Dr Ezeife, was also a one-time Federal Permanent Secretary, a former Political Adviser to the President and former Presidential aspirant.

The Supreme Court is set to deliver its judgment in the appeals filed by the federal government and detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

A five-member panel of the court, led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, had chosen the date, after lawyer to the federal government, Tijani Gazali (SAN) and counsel to Kanu, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) made final submissions.

The federal government prays the court to set aside an earlier judgment by the Court of Appeal, which quashed the treasonable felony charge against Kanu and ordered his release on the grounds that he was unlawfully brought back to the country after he jumped bail.

Kanu, on his part, wants the Supreme Court to allow the judgment of the Court of Appeal and uphold his discharge and acquittal.

In his final submission, Gazali urged the apex court “to allow the appeal, set aside the judgment of the court below and affirm the judgment of the trial court (Federal High Court), to the effect that the respondent should stand trial in respect of the charge, which the court below quashed.”

Gazali further urged the court to dismiss the cross appeal filed by Kanu.

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court had in an earlier ruling, struck out eight counts out of the 15 counts in the original charge filed against Kanu, leaving seven, which the Court of Appeal quashed in its judgment.