By Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja.
Dear Sylvester Udemeze,
On a lighter note, (for different reasons), I agree with your recent treatise “Osun State LGA, NBA-AGC 2025 and NBA’s Misplaced Priorities”.
For want of a better metaphor, the Nigerian Bar Association-NBA is like a man who is obsessed with tackling Erectile Dysfunction instead of addressing the root cause of why his penis is not producing sperm in the first place!!!
By some strange coincidence, for this year’s NBA Annual General Conference (AGC), the theme and motto (“Stand out, stand tall”) seems to demonstrate this current NBA President’s obsession with “Erectile Function”!!!
As if to confirm this notion, the NBA has listed Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as one of its keynote speakers in its NBA-AGC 2025 programme.
Everyone knows that Senator Natasha is the major proponent of the concept of “election, not erection” slogan!!!
Any right-thinking person or lawyer who peruses through the programme of events of the NBA-AGC 2025, would have the impression that the NBA has placed too much emphasis on issues of “standing out, standing tall and erectile function” while neglecting the more important issues of the rising issues of professional misconduct amongst Nigerian lawyers and the perennial allegations of vote rigging and manipulation during the bi-annual elections for NBA Presidents!!!
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The NBA should be more concerned with real reforms and lawyers’ welfare than with themes that sound like jokes.