By Tony Edike

ENUGU —ENUGU—Enugu State House of Assembly, Thursday, confirmed the presiding Bishop of the Christ Ascension Church, Enugu, Rev. Raphael Ifeanyi Nwoye, as the new deputy governor for the state.

Until his nomination and clearance, Nwoye was the Bishop in charge of Christ Ascension Church, Ugwuaji, Enugu and a member of Enugu State Pilgrims Welfare Board.
Bishop Nwoye is from Ishiogbo Nara in Nkanu East local government area of the state as the ousted Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi.

He served as Deputy Chairman of Nkanu East council, Caretaker Committee chairman of the same council and also as Commissioner for Environment under Governor Chimaroke Nnamani administration.
Governor Sullivan Chime forwarded a letter to the State Assembly notifying it of the appointment of Nwoye as replacement for Onyebuchi, who was impeached on Tuesday.
To arrive at the choice, Chime said he consulted with the LG chairmen, chairman of PDP in the LG and stakeholders from Nkanu East Local Government Area.

Speaker of the House, Mr. Eugene Odo at the sitting of the Assembly, yesterday, read the governor’s letter on the floor of the House after a plenary that had earlier deliberated on the bill for the Control of Nomadic Cattle Rearing in Enugu State and Other Matters Related Thereto, 2014, which second reading was stepped down last Tuesday.
The speaker told the House that the state would not operate in a vacuum without having a deputy govenor since the former deputy had been impeached, saying nature abhorred vacuum.