Controversial ‘Baddest Lawyer’ Ifunanya Replies NBA, Says She’s Not In Legal Practice
Ifunanya Excel Grant, a young lawyer from Aba and social media sensation, known as ‘Baddest Lawyer’, has spoken out regarding the recent petition from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) regarding an alleged misconduct.
The NBA’s complaints against Miss Ifunanya centred on her social media notoriety of posting pictures and videos of herself unclad and smoking marijuana.
Reacting to the petition, Ifunnaya in a TikTok video, insisted that at the moment, she wasn’t a practising attorney.
The young Lawyer said “If I keep quiet, it’s going to be like an admission of guilt. So, it’s good for me to come out and actually clear my name. I’m not a practising lawyer. I am a lawyer by book, but I am not practising. At least for now, I don’t have any interest to practise law, maybe someday in the future.”
“At the moment, I am a model. I am an actress, and I am an upcoming musician, a rapper, to be precise. So everything I do, everything I post [on social media] is just for entertainment purposes. It has nothing to do with my legal career. I’m not practising law. I don’t have any intention to practise law for now. So right now, my focus is on the entertainment business.”
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“Before I even became a lawyer, I was a model. I have always been a model. And I have always been into music. I have always been an actress. So, lawyer is just one of the numerous things I am. Everything I post on social media is in my capacity as a model, an actress, and upcoming rapper.”
According to Ifunanya, there are a tonne of fictitious social media pages with her name, and that the majority of the publicly available materials could have been simply altered to fit the narrative being disseminated.