Edo State Chief Judge Dead

LATE JUSTICE MICHAEL EDOKPAYI (RIGHT).

Justice Michael Irobun Edokpayi, Chief Judge of Edo State is dead. He died early tuesday in his Abuja hotel room while attending the Biennial All-Judges Conference holding at the National Judicial Institute Jabi.

The cause of death has not been released by the National Hospital in Abuja. The Late 61 year-old Judge’s body is at the hospital’s mortuary.

Justice Edokpayi was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1980, he was appointed a judge in 1991 and became Chief Judge in 2004.

The Governor of Edo State has described his death as shocking and sudden.