BREAKING: NBA President Invites Olanipekun To Recuse Self From BOB Chairmanship Over Petition Against Staff

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has in a letter dated 22nd July 2021 and made available to The Metro Lawyer (TML) asked the Chairman of the Body of Benchers, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN to recuse himself from that office and to allow for the emplacement of an interim leadership of the BOB, in order to enable the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, to determine a case of professional misconduct against a partner in the law firm of Wole Olanipekun and Co, Ms Adekunbi Ogunde.

It will be recalled that Ms Adekunbi Ogunde, a partner in the law firm of Olanipekun had sent an email to SAIPEM Contracting Nigeria Ltd, one of the clients of Henry Ajumogobia, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, soliciting a brief. Despite being aware that the law firm of Henry Ajumogobia was handling the matter, Ogunde had asked SAIPEM to consider hiring Olanipekun & Co.

She claimed her firm’s leading partner, Chief Olanipekun (SAN) is close to Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges. The Chairman of the Body of Benchers has since apologised to Ajumogobia, stating that he never approved the email sent by Ogunde.

Ogunde has also been dragged to the disciplinary committee over the controversial email, which gave rise to the President’s letter to Wole Olanipekun, SAN.

Read the full letter in the link below…

Letter to Chief Olanipekun on LPDC

See the petition against Ms Ogunde HERE