of the Court of Appeal) and the Supreme Court had ceased to be Judge and Chief Judge, respectively, of the Anambra State and “therefore deprived of the jurisdiction to conclude the hearing and ultimate determination” of the cases they were, each, handling before their elevations. This Court declared each of their decisions, post-elevation, a “nullity for having been given without jurisdiction”. In the analogous cases: Gabriel Iyela V. C.O.P (1969) 1 NMLR 180 and SODEINDE v. THE STATE – FCA/1b/20/1977, it was held that a judge transferred or deployed from one state to another, upon the creation of a new State, who came back to the former State to conclude and or deliver judgment lacked jurisdiction to do so and that the judgment was a nullity. The constitutional issue in that case is that the Judge lacked extra-territorial jurisdiction, just 15