I have lost faith in the Nigerian Bar Association as professional association of lawyers. Credibility, objectivity, honesty and integrity have all departed from the NBA, affairs of NBA and the politics in NBA, unfortunately. NBA is now populated with lawyers, except few, who engaged in mob actions and talks, and lawyers who do not see anything wrong with the glaring wrongs, which wrongs even the blind can see.
The most annoying thing to me is the hypocrisy of some of the most vocal legal practitioners who see wrongs and complained of wrong doing on daily basis against decisions and actions of government institutions, which decisions and actions are always taken and or done in breaches of due processes, including decisions of INEC, but did not see anything wrong with the processes of the just concluded NBA coronation.
These sets of lawyers did not see the incompetence and the illegality in the composition of ECNBA and even the lack of independence of the so- called ECNBA.These lawyers could not see that the ECNBA was teleguided to produce a pre-determined outcome. It is sad that NBA has lost everything noble. Lawyers who did not vote are far more than the lawyers that were alleged to have voted. The processes agreed to be used were jetisoned for processes to produce who the cabals want. The legal profession is going to be the worse for this. Shame on those who see nothing wrong with the wrongs that were done in all the processes that culminated in the coronation just concluded.
For me I have also lost faith in the honesty and integrity of those who were very critical and threatened fire and brimstone over the glitch in the INEC viewing portal then. These same sets of lawyers are now excusing the glitch in the NBA portal that clearly showed incompetence and or a pre- determined system to favour their coronated president.
These NBA elections opened my eyes to apprecaite how hollow and shallow most of the people who pontificate and called politicians names are. Any credible election is determined by the credibilityof the processes leading to election. In this year NBA election, every stage of the processes leading to the sham coronation was staged managed and biased to produce the sham outcome in the just coronation by the kingmakers at NBA house. So sad.
Chief Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, SAN
