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NBA PH COCKTAIL HOLDS JULY 25, AS NBA PRESIDENT BROKERS TRUCE

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NBA PH COCKTAIL HOLDS JULY 25, AS NBA PRESIDENT BROKERS TRUCE

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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Cocktails which ran into hot water due to some controversy will now hold on Friday, July 25, 2025.

This followed a truce brokered by the NBA President, Mr. Afam Osigwe SAN amid the controversial “Social Committee” set up by the Branch Social Secretary Mary Dikibo.

Rising from an Emergency Meeting of the branch Executive Committee which held last Friday at the ADR Room 2, NBA Port Harcourt Branch House, the branch resolved that “The Branch cocktail slated for Friday 25th July 2025 will still hold as scheduled.”

Whilce decrying as “regrettable” the “events of the past one week wherein some negative publications about the Branch were circulated online,” the Executive Committee stated that “Pursuant to the intervention of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, the outcome of the mediation brokered by the NBA President in resolution of the outstanding issues is acceptable to the EXCO with a commitment by all members of the EXCO to work harmoniously as a team towards the implementation of same.”

The committee stated that “Following the Mediation, EXCO has approved the Adhoc Cocktail Committee Constituted by the Branch Chairman with the Social Secretary Mary Dikibo as the Chairman of the Committee and Dr. Peter Ayogu as the Alternate Chairman.”

Putting the controversial “Social Committee” in abeyance, the branch Executive Committee noted that “The Branch Social Committee earlier dissolved has been reinstated but will be reconstituted after the Cocktail. However, members of the Social Committee interested in working in the Adhoc Cocktail Committee can indicate their interest to do so.”

Also putting to rest the seeming power tussle between two Officers of the branch, the Executive Committee directed the Social Secretary  to “take directions from the EXCO and Chairman in the course of organising the cocktail and should comply with EXCO directives with respect to the cocktail.”

The committee also resolved that the “chairman and the social secretary are to work out the details of the vendors for the cocktail and funds made available immediately.”
CITY LAWYER recalls that the fiery Branch Chairman Cordelia Eke had issued a scathing public statement decrying the “misinformation, misrepresentations and utter falsehood that have recently been circulated in the social media space about our dear branch and my person, by a group of unscrupulous mischief-makers who would stop at nothing, including negative propaganda, cyber bullying, blackmail and personal attacks, to stimulate crisis, in an attempt to return the branch to their stranglehold, from which we have been liberated in June 2024, after about ten years of questionable leadership, plunder of our resources and intimidation of dissenting voices.”
NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION PORT HARCOURT BRANCH
RESOLUTIONS OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, PORT HARCOURT BRANCH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
At the end of the Emergency Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association, Port Harcourt Branch Executive Committee held on the 18th day of July, 2025 at the ADR Room 2, NBA Port Harcourt Branch House, it was resolved, as follows:
1. The events of the past one week wherein some negative publications about the Branch were circulated online are regrettable.
2. The Branch cocktail slated for Friday 25th July 2025 will still hold as scheduled.
3. Pursuant to the intervention of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, the outcome of the mediation brokered by the NBA President in resolution of the outstanding issues is acceptable to the EXCO with a commitment by all members of the EXCO to work harmoniously as a team towards the implementation of same.
3. Following the Mediation, EXCO has approved the Adhoc Cocktail Committee Constituted by the Branch Chairman with the Social Secretary Mary Dikibo as the Chairman of the Committee and Dr. Peter Ayogu as the Alternate Chairman. 
4. The Adhoc Cocktail Committee is constituted to execute the branch cocktail holding on the 25th of July 2025.
5. The Branch Social Committee earlier dissolved has been reinstated but will be reconstituted after the Cocktail. However, members of the Social Committee interested in working in the Adhoc Cocktail Committee can indicate their interest to do so.
6. The Social Secretary is to take directions from the EXCO and Chairman in the course of organising the cocktail and should comply with EXCO directives with respect to the cocktail. 
7.  The Branch chairman and the social secretary are to work out the details of the vendors for the cocktail and funds made available immediately.
8. The Branch Secretary will give update to the EXCO on the verification of the signatories for the requisitioned Extra Ordinary General Meeting by Monday, 21st July, 2025.
Dated this 18th  day of July, 2025.
Obum D. Nwoye Esq. FICMC
Branch Secretary
Cordelia U. Eke (Mrs).
Chairman

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