The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee has pulled back the assignment of a legal counselor, Ikhide Ehighelua, for the coveted rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria and banned him from applying for the rank for the following five years beginning from 2019.
The decision taken at the LPPC’s crisis meeting on Thursday came scarcely four days to his swearing-in alongside 30 others officially planned to happen at the Supreme Court in Abuja on Monday.
The LPPC, in an announcement issued late Thursday by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary to the council, Mrs. Hadizatu Mustapha, said it took the choice after an “exemplary” request of blaming him for getting an ex parte request of break directive in a way that damaged the rules for the conferment of SAN rank.
The LPPC in its discoveries particularly presumed that the legal advisor “intentionally occupied with net mishandle of court process” in connection to acquiring the between time court arrange.
“That Ikhide Ehighelua Esquire being an officer in the sanctuary of equity and a hopeful to the lifted up position of Senior Advocate of Nigeria has behaved in a way which is unmistakably in negation with the arrangements of passage 22(2) (an) and (c) and 23(a),(b),(c)& (d) of the 2018 Guidelines of the Conferment of Senior Advocate of Nigeria,” the LPPC expressed.
