Disciplinary panel adjourns Dasuki family’s petition against ex-AGF, Malami, indefinitely

The Disciplinary Committee of Legal Practitioners’ Privileges
Committee on Friday adjourned indefinitely, the hearing of a
petition of alleged misconduct filed by the family of a former
National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, against the immediate-past
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami
(SAN).

Our correspondent learnt that the three-man panel of the LPPC
adjourned the hearing indefinitely on Friday after the petitioners,
through their lawyer, Mr. Victor Okwudiri, requested an adjournment
to enable them to “regularise” their petition.

They sought to do so by filing a “verifying affidavit” which was
not originally filed along with their petition as it ought to.

Malami and his team of lawyers attended the Friday’s
proceedings.

They did not oppose the petitioners’ request.

The three-man panel led by the Chief Judge of Osun State,
Justice Adepele Ojo, subsequently adjourned the matter indefinitely
to afford the petitioners enough time to regularise their
petition.

Our correspondent learnt that the panel assured that it would
issue a hearing notice for its next proceedings in due course.

The Dasuki family’s petition was sparked by Malami’s last year
media comment suggesting that Dasuki, despite meeting the latest
bail conditions granted him by the Federal High Court in Abuja on
July 2, 2018, would not be released from the custody of the
Department of State Service on the grounds of national
security.

Their petitions dated July 23, 2018 were signed by Dasuki’s son,
Abubakar Dasuki, the detainee’s wife, Hajia Bintu Sambo-Dasuki, and
his nephew, Senator Umaru Dahiru.

The petitioners prayed that Malami be disciplined not just as a
lawyer, but also as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

The LPPC is the body that confers the highly coveted rank of
Senior Advocate of Nigeria on deserving lawyers and reserves the
power to withdraw the rank from any lawyer on the grounds of
ethical breaches.

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