The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has filed a petition against Ifunanya Excel Grant, an Abia-based lawyer, over her “notoriety” on social media.
In a statement issued on Saturday,
The NBA spokesperson, Akorede Lawal, said Grant, who is popularly known as “baddest lawyer”, often posted pictures and videos of herself unclad and smoking marijuana.
The NBA also announced that a petition has been lodged before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) against Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Adamawa State resident electoral commissioner (REC).
Yunusa-Ari had stirred controversy when he declared Binani as the winner of the Adamawa governorship election when the collation of the results had yet to be completed.
However, INEC declared the announcement null and void.
Yunusa-Ari was later suspended and INEC announced that a six-count charge has been filed against him before a high court in Yola, the capital of Adamawa.
“The NBA has filed petitions at the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) against Mr. Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Ifunanya Excel Grant, a young lawyer of Aba branch wildly known as ‘the baddest lawyer’ on social media,” the statement read.