The house dismissed her since she's from Akwa Ibom state.
Nonetheless, a report by GuardianNg uncovered that Governor Ben Ayade had not been well arranged to the designation of Ikpeme since she hailed from Akwa Ibom State albeit wedded to a Cross River man.
To support his position, Ayade had initiated a different State Judicial Service Commission (JSC), which named a lesser adjudicator, Justice Maurice Eneji to the National Judicial Council (NJC) as Acting Chief Judge.
In any case, in view of its remain on rank independent of where judges hail from the NJC in December a year ago named Justice Ikpeme as exhibited by another JSC headed by then Chief Judge of the state, Justice Michael Edem as Acting Chief Judge.
She represented three months.
The Assembly was to situate keep going Friday to consider on her affirmation, however the greater part of the individuals remained away as it was asserted that the official instigated them with N500,000 each to neutralize her affirmation.
The House was loaded up with strain yesterday when the issue came begging to be proven wrong with security operators keeping up vital situations outside the Assembly chamber to thwart any emergency as courts in the state stayed shut in challenge her affirmation.
At the point when thought came, two restricting reports were introduced for thought demonstrating that the Committee on Judiciary that took care of the issue may have been separated over suppositions and budgetary instigation as a group of the advisory group drove by its Chairman, Efa Esua cleared Ikpeme for affirmation, while another drove by Godwin Akwaji (Obudu State body electorate) and five others suggested that Ikpeme be dismissed in light of the fact that she was not from Cross River State.
Following the disarray, the House after warmed discussion dismissed the two reports and a council of the entire house at last dismissed her affirmation through a voice vote, a circumstance for which a few individuals censured the introduction of two reports.
Likewise, delegate of Bakassi, Ekpo Bassey advised the house against setting a terrible priority, saying, "This is my fifth year in the House and I have never observed two reports being displayed to the House from a board of trustees.
"The House must be in favor of equity consistently and abstain from setting an awful priority. We have to fortify organizations and abstain from planting seeds of ethnicity and disunity in the House."
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