The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has disowned a Lagos-based social critic, Adeola Samuel-Ilori, saying that it has no record of him as a legal practitioner.

A report by The PUNCH quoted an NBA correspondence from its General Secretary, Jonathan Gunu Taidi, as saying that Samuel-Ilori’s name was not on the enrolment list of lawyers with the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

“I further state that the said name is not contained in the database of the Nigerian Bar Association and I am unable to provide any information on him,” Taidi added in the letter dated January 7, 2020.

The Secretary, Ikeja branch of the NBA, Chinedu Ifezue, in a mail to a PUNCH correspondent on March 11, 2020, also said there was no record of Samuel-Ilori.

The PUNCH quoted Ifezue as stating that Samuel-Ilori should be queried on his enrolment details with the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

“The enquiries followed complaints to The PUNCH about the activities of the critic, who was alleged to be operating under the name, Lead Solicitors, a chamber in the Ikeja area of the state.

“The critic, it was alleged, collected money from people, who had issues with power companies, promising to take matters up for them,” the paper said.

It said that the activist, who runs a programme on Rainbow FM, a radio station near Lagos, and a consumer advocate group, the All Electricity Consumers Forum, failed to defend himself despite being given opportunities to do so over a period of weeks.