The chicken has come home to roost, as they say.

The current crisis in the Almighty one body of lawyers underscores the justification of having several associations of lawyers in a massively lawyer population such as Nigeria.

A tendency of the bar, having seized the reigns of the electoral system for lawyers, is bent on continuous determination of outcomes of NBA elections. The traditional bar will have none of this. Hence, the battle rages for the soul of the NBA.

All this is unnecessary if lawyers can freely associate outside the shackles of the NBA which adequately catered for all lawyers when the numbers were manageable. Those numbers cannot be managed any more by one association – and the consequences are now obvious.

This is the fresh air that the Nigerian Law Society brings.

I shall make my fuller thoughts public soon.

Chief Bolaji Ayorinde SAN OFR
Chairman, Board of Trustees
Nigerian Law Society

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