LPDC Dismisses Petition Against Olumayowa Owolabi, Says Petitioner, Should Be Standing Trial Instead

* Says Complainant Lovely Ikponwosa Erhabor should be the
one facing disciplinary Proceedings.

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee has in its
directive in a Disciplinary Proceedings against Mr Olumayowa
Owolabi held that it is the Petitioner Mr. Lovely Ikponwosa Erhabor
that should be facing disciplinary proceedings.

Mr Erhabor had filed and instigated a Petition against his
colleague, Mr Owolabi on the basis that he repeatedly applied for a
Mareva Order to restrain the movement of his Clients Barges despite
the fact that the matter was on appeal.

The committee found that despite the existing order restraining
the movement of the Barges from the locations they were attached,
Mr Erhabor’s Client moved the barges and he failed to return to the
Court to secure a variation/amendment of the order before resorting
to self-help but rather threw caution into the wind when during
cross-examination he confirmed and justified his clients contract
with a 3rd party in defiance of an existing order to further his
strategy of frustrating the Order of Hon. Idris J of the Federal
High Court.

The Committee held that the applications for Mareva Injunction
was lawful and a genuine masterstroke in countering the
contrivances of the Petitioner, who had also misled the Court that
an appeal had been entered.

The Committee in its directive held that, “the disciplinary
process is not for able and competent legal practitioners who use
the legal process in a lawful and proper manner” and found that, it
is the Petitioner who had ignited disciplinary proceedings against
his colleague, who should be standing trial for his brazen display
of unethical strategies of frustrating and arresting the judicial
process of court through deceits and disobedience of court orders
by his client, with his conspicuous and ominous approval.”