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Branches of the Nigerian Bar Association in Katsina, Ikeja, Abeokuta, Kano, Port Harcout and other major towns  on Sunday said they would attend the NBA annual general meeting starting on Wednesday.

The groups, in separate interviews with our correspondents, faulted the call by the Kaduna State branch of the Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria for all Muslim lawyers to withdraw from the conference because of the NBA’s withdrawal of the invitation to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who was initially one of the speakers at the meeting.

But the branch of the association in Bauchi insisted on its position that it would not attend the conference if the NBA failed to rescind its decision to withdraw El-Rufai’s  invitation.

The NBA had, at its meeting on Thursday, withdrawn El-Rufai’s invitation following a petition against him by some lawyers, who cited his poor handling of killings in Southern Kaduna.

The association’s decision had generated diverse reactions with the governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Mr.Muyiwa Adekeye in a statement on Thursday, saying it was as one-sided.In the statement titled, ‘Mallam El-Rufai will continue to contribute to the national conversation,’ Adekeye said the NBA took the decision without listening to the other side.

The Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria also faulted the NBA, saying the association’s decision was irresponsible.But groups, including the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union and the Socio-Economic Rights and ability Project, lauded the NBA for standing on the side of justice.But on Sunday, branches of the NBA differed on the call by MULAN for the boycott of the conference.

We’re attending, there are other competent persons that can be invited – Katsina NBA

The NBA in Katsina said the branch would attend the association’s annual national conference, adding that there were other people that could be invited.

The association’s Assistant Secretary, Barrister Isah Ibrahim, in an interview with The PUNCH, said,  “The NBA Katsina and all its s are attending the congress. We are not part of the boycott. The call for boycott is just by a minute faction of the Kaduna NBA and we here in Katsina are not part of the call for the boycott.

“The issue of whom to invite for the  NBA conference is the prerogative of the annual general conference committee subject to the approval of the National Executive Council of the NBA.

“Governor El-Rufai was dropped because of issues concerning insecurity in Kaduna, but we believe that  there are other qualified and competent personalities who are really performing and who could be invited to deliver lectures.

On his part, the  Chairman of the Osogbo branch of the NBA, Abdulraman Okunade, said personally, he was opposed to the decision of the NEC, but he would attend the conference.

Although we are part of the minority, we will attend – Kano branch
Also, the Kano branch of the association said it would attend the conference.The state  NBA chairman, Aminu Gadanya, who said this   in a telephone interview  with The PUNCH in Kano on Sunday, said, “Even though we are part of the minority, we are participating in the conference because it is binding on us.”

The Chairman of NBA, Port Harcourt branch, Prince Nyekwere, while speaking to  one of our correspondents on Sunday, also said the  branch would attend the meeting.Reacting to a petition calling for the withdrawal of invitations to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, Nyekwere said the attention of the NBA had not been brought to such a petition

Wike doesn’t need anybody’s permission to attend NBA programmes – Commissioner

On his part, the Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, in an interview with The PUNCH, said, “His Excellency, the Governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike, does not need anybody’s permission to attend a programme of the NBA. He is a member of the body of benchers and a seasoned legal practitioner.”

The immediate past Chairman of the Abeokuta branch of NBA, Emmanuel Olualade, ed the body’s decision on El-Rufai.Olualade, who spoke to one of our correspondents on Sunday, said he attended the NEC meeting where the resolution was made.

He explained that the way the  NBA  was structured, no branch had the power to challenge  the  resolution of the NEC ,except if the decision affected it directly.

Tribe doesn’t matter in law profession – Ikeja  branch
Also, the Chairman of the Ikeja NBA, Mr Dele Oloke, said the branch had no other option but to abide by the decision of the association’s NEC on El-Rufai.

Oloke said, “For us, when NEC decides, under our constitution, only another NEC of the NBA can change it. Those who want us to re-invite Nasir El-Rufai should forget about it. Naturally, every lawyer should abide by the decision of NEC, if your wig and gown are worth the cloth with which they were sewn. And it doesn’t matter your tribe.

El-Rufai must be re-invited to speak at conference, Bauchi branch insists
But  the NBA branch in Bauchi  called on its national leadership to be promoters of the rule of law and not to be driven by parochial sentiments.In an interview on Sunday, the branch Chairman, Abubakar Abdulhamid, said the position of the group was still the same as the one in the statement it issued on Friday.

The branch in a statement by Abdulhamid, and the branch Secretary, Shansuddeen Magaji, said the NBA should be “seen as promoting the principles of the rule of law and attainment of justice to all manner of people irrespective of cultural, tribal, religious or political inclination.

The association also called on the NEC re-invite El-Rufai and apologise to its for the “unpopular decision” of withdrawing the invitation to him.

Sokoto branch decides today

But Chairman of the Sokoto branch, Sambo Mohammed,  in an a chat with The PUNCH said the group would on Monday (today) decide whether it would attend the conference or not.

https://punchng.com/el-rufai-ikeja-kano-ph-other-branches-shun-call-to-boycott-nba-confab/?amp=1
Lalasticlala

...The Kano branch of the association said it would attend the conference....The NBA in Katsina said the branch would attend the association’s annual national conference....

The call for boycott is just by a minute faction of the Kaduna NBA and we here in Katsina are not part of the call for the boycott.

Ngeneukwenu! IPOB have rationalized the reasoning of your people again.Thought you said all the northern NBA will boycott the national union?

“Governor El-Rufai was dropped because of issues concerning insecurity in Kaduna, but we believe that  there are other qualified and competent personalities who are really performing and who could be invited to deliver lectures.."

"...As at today, Southern Kaduna is the most active site of massacres and mass atrocities in Nigeria.Despite this, when the Governor met with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna on 17 August, Governor El-Rufai dismissed the atrocities going on in Southern Kaduna as “media hype”.

The previous day, on 16 August, he informed Seun Okinbaloye on Channels Television’s “Politics Today” programme, that he had been unable to visit the sites of atrocity in Southern Kaduna nor extend empathy to the victims because of COVID-19. 

However, on 8 August, Governor El-Rufai found time to travel to Benin-City for the flag-off of the Campaign of his party in the Edo State Governorship elections. Apparently, COVID-19 did not preclude that...."

https://thenigerialawyer.com/2020-virtual-agc-el-rufai-has-no-regard-for-rule-of-law-withdraw-his-invitation-as-speaker-open-bar-initiative-urges-nba-tc/

The way this country is presently structured, needs a serious review

Even nba cannot talk in one voice... No difference between them and el-rufai.. Unstable!

who certified those clowns in North as a legal practitioners in the first place? how can you publicly claimed to boyscout your professional body organization because of one 4years elected clown?



I don't see any different between educated people in North and their uneducated. even in most cases, the uneducated people in North has a reasoning state than their so called educated clowns

Eve and the Serpent

El-rufia is the Serpent while Northerners are Eve.

El-rufia should be avoided like a virus!! He and his family are pandemic without cure!

MURIC + EL-RUFIA= DISASTER

The NBA apologized already.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Let's move on biko.

Stop all the daily bitterness and hatred and let's move our darling nation forward.

#TeamPositivity

post=93158126:
okay

Stop writing trash

Useless association
What exactly have they even stood for or against during this dictatorship

They masers have been left to take matters into their own hands

In saner climes, someone like El'Rufai is supposed to be a car washman. He's too Islamic to be a true leader.

so na elrufai mata go scatter NBA

Too early.

I have nothing to say. Let the elders come

post=93158126:
The NBA apologized already.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Let's move on biko.

Stop all the daily bitterness and hatred and let's move our darling nation forward.

#TeamPositivity

Thank God you can't like your own posts, just keep Sharing your balderdash.

Why peegs hate these following men so much despite that they have not govern their rejected region
El-Rufai
Tinubu
Ganduje

post=93158126:
The NBA apologized already.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Let's move on biko.

Stop all the daily bitterness and hatred and let's move our darling nation forward.

#TeamPositivity

CERTIFIED CLOWN.lol

Aboki will always be an aboki .

nickxtra:
The way this country is presently structured, needs a serious review

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Evercurious:


CERTIFIED CLOWN.lol

This country had never been this divided along religious and ethnic divide, too bad Buhari is not even helping matters he made these things look so obvious.

Miniso:
Aboki will always be an aboki .

Translation : A friend will always be a friend!

Is dat all Mr Aboki our friend?!

Miniso:
Aboki will always be an aboki .

Meaning that they will always rule the southerners who THINK they are smarter?
What does the smartness amount to if the Abokis keep driving us out of our country, as the Abokis occupy the departed space and continue ruining the country?


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comos:
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on Friday justified the arrest of only suspects of Yoruba extraction over the recent clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State, which resulted in the death of about 46 persons. He said crime neither has tribe nor identity.

Idris spoke with State House correspondents shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari of security situations in parts of the country inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The police had been in the eye of the storm for arresting and parading 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, over the clash while not a single Hausa/Fulani person was detained.

The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere; and the Oodua Peoples Congress are among groups and individuals that have been criticising the police over the development.

Idris however said the police would not hesitate to apply the law once criminal cases are established against individuals, irrespective of their tribe.

He said, “You know we are police officers. Crime has no tribe. If you are a criminal, you are a criminal.

“Crime has no face. We don’t look at crime in the identity of where you are coming from.

“As far as you are a criminal and the police find you wanting, we apply the law.”

He said investigation had revealed that the crisis started with a disagreement between two people selling food along the road.

https://punchng.com/ife-clash-igp-justifies-arrest-of-only-yoruba-suspects/

galuayan:
so na elrufai mata go scatter NBA

E no fit at all.. it will only give the unrealistic /unprofessional one especially the SHARIA lawyers a brain reset.. it's already working.. make dem stay there and boycott their professional conference.. who e affect? Inconsequential fellows as if their presence has ever made any meaningful contribution other than Sharia and confusion..

Only fôolish terrorist sympathizers will shun the NBA conference, they never said a word when ElRufai was behaving like a baby tyrant and now they’re acting as if he was treated unfairly. Nonsense

englishmart:
Thank God you can't like your own posts, just keep Sharing your balderdash.

Attention seeking kiddo, is dat all too?

Y'all should know by now that dem MANNA is unprovokable, no matter what Incoherent gibberish Y'all type!

Check our Profile pic, and you get to understand dem MANNA more kid bro.

UNFUCKWITHABLE, that is who we are, ask your retired senior wailers !
Na dem tire las las!
3 of them have even turned to business partners now,
dem happy die!
Those are your elder ones o, family men, who come be u kiddo?
U go soon wise like dem before 2023.


@topic, a better Nigeria is all we want.
We thank our darling Bubu for all the gigantic projects going on all over the federation.
God bless our darling nation.

post=93158126:
The NBA apologized already.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Let's move on biko.

Stop all the daily bitterness and hatred and let's move our darling nation forward.

#TeamPositivity

Stop posting thrash

boko NBA faction loading with Imam Shekau as guest speaker

judgementyard:

Stop posting thrash

galuayan:
so na elrufai mata go scatter NBA

The way that Barawo Bubu has scattered the Fulani Republic of Naijeriya, FRN


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dokyOloye:
boko NBA faction loading with Imam Shekau as guest speaker

Do you think that MUMURIC man will be the ?