Ajibola Aribisala stripped of SAN rank

The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Tuesday stripped Mr Ajibola A. Aribisala, of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
With this development Aribisala becomes the second legal practitioner who is member of the inner bar to be so treated by the regulatory body.
The first SAN to lose his title was a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, who was stripped of the title on October 7, 2010 by the same LPPC.
Mr. Aondoakaa was stripped of the title after his response to a petition written against him by a non-governmental organisation, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR).
The LPPC’s decision was taken following a petition by Fidelity Bank against Mr. Aribisala and after hearing his response to the petition, the Committee decided that he should be suspended from using the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
By this decision, Mr Aribisala loses all privileges attached to the rank pending the outcome of the Court case impeding investigation by the Sub-Committee set up by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee.