LPPC asked to withdraw suspension of Ozekhome’s SAN rank pending conclusion of trial

The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, has been asked to retreat Mike Ozekhome’s suspension from the fertile of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, pending the result of his prosecution by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offenses Commission, ICPC, which has been taken implicit by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF.

The determination to suspend Ozekhome’s SAN fertile was taken astatine the 173rd wide gathering of the LPPC, held connected June 23, 2026.

The LPPC, successful a connection signed by its Secretary and Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Kabir Akanbi, said the suspension is intended to safeguard the integrity, dignity and prestige of the SAN rank. The connection added that the enactment was taken successful enactment with Paragraph 26(6) of the Guidelines for the Conferment of the Rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, pending the last determination of disciplinary proceedings presently earlier the Disciplinary and Ethics Sub-Committee of the LPPC.

However, lawyers nether the aegis of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, person said the suspension is sub-judice arsenic it concerns issues that are sub...