Godson Irikefe
July 12, 2015 – National Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Muiz Banire who was recently conferred with Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has appealed to his family, friends and well-wishers to stop congratulating him on the pages of newspapers, stressing that it is against the rules of the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC.
Banire who’s in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in a statement issued on Sunday July 12, 2015 said his attention has been drawn to efforts by his friends and well wishers to place advertisements to congratulate him.
“I want to sincerely express my appreciation to all those who have placed or planning to place congratulatory messages in my honour in the media. At the same time, I want to plead with them to stop such immediately as the rules of LPPC are against such at this stage.
“They can re channel their resources for other noble and kind-hearted ventures at this time or wait till after the September swearing in of the newly elevated lawyers including me. Once again, it’s in the interest of their love for me and our relationship to stop any form of congratulatory advertisements for me now”, he pleaded.
Banire is one of the 21lawyers on the list of new Senior Advocates of Nigeria released by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary of the LPPC, Ahmed Gambo Saleh last Friday. They’re expected to be sworn in at the commencement of the new legal year on September 21,2015.
