In response to recent speculations linking controversial legal practitioner and online influencer Ifunanya Excel Grant, popularly known as “Baddest Lawyer,” with the Aba branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), local authorities have firmly refuted any such claims.
Issued on Tuesday, a statement endorsed by NBA Aba Branch Chairman Innocent O. Egwu, Esq., and Secretary Mazi K.C. Okoro, categorically disavowed any affiliation between Miss Ifunanya Excel Grant and the NBA Aba Branch.
The statement reads, “For the records, we wish to state categorically that Miss Ifunanya Excel Grant is not a member of the NBA, Aba Branch, and she is unknown to NBA, Aba Branch.”
While expressing support for the broader efforts of the NBA to uphold professional standards and weed out any misconduct, the NBA Aba Branch appealed for careful consideration, urging responsible authorities to ensure that law-abiding practitioners are not unfairly implicated.
The statement further elaborated, “While we support every effort of our great association, the NBA, to rid the legal profession of the few bad eggs, we must request that painstaking efforts be taken by officers concerned to ensure that innocent and law-abiding practitioners are not unwittingly held out in bad light to the public.”
These assertions come on the heels of reports linking Ifunanya to NBA membership within the Aba Branch. The reports were spurred by the call for her prosecution due to alleged inappropriate social media content involving substance abuse, as well as explicit images and videos.”
