The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, has restored Mr. Beluolisa Nwofor to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.
The LPPC had on June 23, 2017, stripped Nwofor of the prestigious SAN rank over his alleged involvement in act of judicial misconduct.
Action of the Committee followed a petition the Court of Appeal lodged against the senior lawyer who played key role in series of litigations that heralded a governorship election that held in Ondo State.
Nwofor, who represented a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state that rooted for the emergence of Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as gubernatorial candidate of the party, had aside from accusing a panel of the appellate court of collecting bribe, equally joined the Justices as parties in an appeal that was later dismissed by the Supreme Court.
While dismissing the appeal, the then CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, awarded cost totalling about N9million against the litigants, stressing that Nwofor must pay the money from his own pocket
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