Seun Awoyele, Writes NBA Lagos Chair, Akangbe To Organise Election For Young Lawyers

A young lawyer who is a member of Lagos branch of NBA, Seun. A.
Awoyele has urged the branch Chairman, Omoyemi Akangbe, to call for
an election into the offices of Young Lawyers Forum NBA Lagos.

Seun in a letter to the Chairman, Omoyemi Akangbe, he reminded
him of his Campaign promise to organize elections for the young
lawyer to choose their leaders when he is elected as the
chairman.

He furthered stated that rumor has it that Omoyemi Akangbe wants
to do otherwise by imposing a leader on Lagos young lawyers.

Read his letter below

Mr. Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe

The Chairman,

Nigerian Bar Association
Lagos Branch
Lagos

Dear Sir

RE: YOUNG LAWYERS ELECTION

A befitting start to this letter is to congratulate you, once
again, for your emergence as the Chairman of the Branch. It is also
worthy of commendation that since your coming into office, the
meetings of the Branch have been held at the City Hall, allowing
room for members of the Branch to attend meetings comfortably.

Before going on, it is important to note that, though a lawyer,
I have been comfortable sitting outside the NBA, looking in only
intermittently. I was only drawn in after the last Branch elections
because of what I see to be some hope.

The above being said, I wish to draw your attention to an
important part of your campaign which was an important point upon
which many young lawyers voted you to be our chairman. I refer you
to Item 5 of your manifesto which states as follows:

“I will organize elections for the young lawyers to
elect the leadership of the Young Lawyers Forum”

The words were clear and direct, and caused young lawyers to
rally around you, the result of which was your emergence as the
chairman.

It is important to note that two meetings of the Branch have
passed, in addition to the one month during which no meeting held
as a result of the NBA Conference, but no word has been said about
the election of the leadership of the young lawyers of the Lagos
Branch.

As a matter of fact, rumors going round indicate that the
leadership of the Branch has perfected plans to appoint the
leadership of the Young Lawyers Forum contrary to your
clear and unequivocal pledge to the young lawyers of the
Branch and the Branch as a whole.

We are taught that lawyers are men of honor.
And that once a lawyer makes a promise, it is taken for granted
that he will do what he said. A lot has been said about the decline
in the ethics and culture of the Bar. These things are learned from
Lawyers, senior lawyers who say one thing and do the other. If the
leadership of the Bar cannot be ethical and upright, it loses the
moral standing to teach ethics to the young lawyers.

I, however, would strongly like to believe that these rumors are
not true and that you are a man of honor whose words are enough. I
will hold on to that belief strongly because anything else will
mean that we have the same caliber of men as Bar leaders as we have
politicians in the Nigerian society who are regarded, largely, as
liars. Anything else would mean my hope in the new bar is
misplaced.

I hope to get a response soon and I hope that response raises my
hope in the Bar.

Thank you very much and please accept the assurances of my
highest regards.

Yours faithfully,

Seun A. Awoyele
A Concerned Young Lawyer

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