The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami says he will take a position on the current division in the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) at the appropriate time.
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The association is being threatened by factionalism after some lawyers launched what they called the New NBA to protest the NBA’s withdrawal of its invitation to Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State to speak at its recent National Conference.
The New NBA said on Friday it was open to dialogue if the mother association “returns to glorious days’.
The main body itself said is also receptive to the idea of reconciliation although it said yesterday it had not established contact with the dissenters.
Asked yesterday to respond to the letter written to him recently by the New NBA on its emergence and call for Malami’s support, the Minister said he would do “the needful guided by the extant laws.”
Malami who spoke through his media aide, Dr. Umar Gwandu in a terse message to The Nation, not TheNigerialawyer, said his action would be “in the best interest of the bar and the public interest which he is committed to uphold.”
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