Obasanjo, CJN, Sultan, Kukah, Others Set To Storm Ekiti For Afe Babalola’s 60th Bar Anniversary

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Olukayode Ariwoola and former President Olusegun Obasanjo are among the dignitaries scheduled to converge in Ado-Ekiti next Monday to celebrate the 60th Call to Bar anniversary of a legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN).

Other dignitaries who will grace the occasion are the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto State, Bishop Matthew Kukah, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, among others.

The event, which will feature a public lecture and book launch, is to celebrate his 60 years as a lawyer.

Afe Babalola, who is the founder of the Afe Babalola University was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales on July 9, 1963.

A statement by the Chairman, Organizing Committee, Kehinde Ogunwumiju, SAN, disclosed that the ceremony which is being put together by Aare Babalola’s mentees, admirers and beneficiaries, will hold at the Alfa Belgore Hall, Afe Babalola University, ABUAD, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Ogunwumiju, SAN, stated that Bishop Kukah will deliver the anniversary lecture, titled “The future of constitutional democracy in Nigeria: Imperative of a new constitutional order,” with ex-President Obasanjo acting as the Chairman of the occasion.