Legal icon Asiwaju Adegboyeya Solomon Awomolo, SAN, has written a letter to the Elders of the Bar on the nullification of the 2014 and 2015 Constitution of the Nigerian Bar Association by Hon Justice Tsoho of Abuja Federal High Court. The SAN showed displeasure over the negligent of the elected executive members of the Association, who failed to do the needful . In the letter released by the learned Silk, he called on the Trustees of the association to put right the Association. Thenigerialawyer recalls the judgement of a Federal High Court in Abuja which nullified the Nigerian Bar Association’s 2015 Amended constitution Below is the copy of his letter 5th April, 2017. Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim SAN CON Chief Anthony Mogboh SAN Chief T.J.O Okpoko SAN Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN Chief Mrs Priscilla Kuye, Alhaji Muritala Aminu OFR Incorporated Trustees of the Nigerian Bar Association. Dear Elders, NULLIFICATION OF 2014 AND 2015 N IGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION CONSTITUTION BY THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT I write respectfully to invite your attention to the Judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, delivered on Friday 30th day of March 2017. The enrolled copy of the order of the Court is attached herewith. The implication of this Judgment is so grave that it will appear as if we have been drawn back to 1992 when the Bar Association went into crisis that nearly terminated its existence, I recall that Chief ERA Williams SAN (of Blessed Memory), Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim SAN CON, Chief Tony Mogboh SAN, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN and Alhaji Muritala Aminu OFR rose to support me and the Committee of Chairmen and Secretaries of the 44 branches of the NBA to bring it back as a body corporate. Chief TJIO Okpoko SAN, was elected as President at the 1998 August Conference held here in Abuja. It is very sad to note that the Trustees inadvertently, have left the Association to the hands of successive elected leaders, some of whom by omission or commission lost sense of history and abdicated their responsibilities. It is unthinkable that an elementary thing like the registration of the amended Constitution of the Association can be left unregistered. where Senior Advocates of Nigeria had led the elected Bar officials. It is my humble View that your leadership of the Association as Registered Trustees, is now called upon to put right the Bar Association, failing which one can foresee the emergence of Regional Bar Associations and Law Societies. The arguments put into public domain by elected officers of the Bar Association is very unfortunate. No legal argument or unauthorised appeal can save the failure, negligence and irresponsibilities of the management of the Bar. This is not the time for sophistry of the law and legal technicality to elongate the tenure of the present officials. Their desire to secure or save their tenure at the detriment of the Association is sad. selfish and should be condemned by all of us. I wish to request that a meeting of the Board of Trustees be held very urgently to save the Bar from disintegration and put to rest fractionalization encouraged by the immediate leadership of the Association. We think our labour to save the Association should not be allowed to waste on the altar of negligence and irresponsible leadership. Chief Adegboyega womolo. SAN CC: Hon. Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, GCON The Hon. Chief Justice of Nigeria The Supreme Court Three Arms Zone, Abuja. Below is the copy of his letter in PDF format [pdf-embedder url=”https://thenigerialawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/DOC-20170406-WA000.pdf” title=”doc-20170406-wa000″]]]>