‘Baddest Lawyer’ Ifunanya to NBA: I’m chasing my dreams, kindly leave me alone
Ifunanya with her trademark Indian Hemp
By Emma Ogbuehi
Controversial lawyer and social media sensation, Ifunanya Excel Grant, on Thursday, officially told the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to leave her alone to “chase her dreams” and actualize herself in her chosen field of entertainment.
Recall that TheNiche had earlier reported that the unconventional activities of the young female lawyer, who posts half nude pictures of herself on the social medial, had attracted the attention of the NBA, which subsequently petitioned the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC).
In a statement last weekend, NBA said: “Following the resolutions of the National Officers, the NBA has filed petitions at the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) against Ifunanya Excel Grant, a young lawyer of Aba Branch widely known as “the baddest lawyer” on social media.”
NBA said the complaints against Miss Ifunanya centred on her social media notoriety of posting pictures and videos of herself unclad and smoking marijuana.
But Ifunanya, in a statement on Thursday, which she said was her official reaction to the NBA, asked the lawyers’ umbrella body to leave her alone.
She said NBA has no business with what she is doing because she is not a practicing lawyer, but an actress, musician and a model who is earning a living through her social media activities.
She also disowned most of the social media accounts that have sprung up in her name even as she insisted that she had never been on Twitter.
She wrote: “My official statement to the NBA And Nigerians.
“Please I’m not the one on Twitter I have never been in Twitter.
“I have been silent for so long because I’m not the type to talk too much but it’s finally time I speak up & clear my name.
“Dearest @Nigerianbar I don’t bother anyone. I’m a model, actress and musician and all I do is live, mind my business and chase my dreams. Please, kindly leave me alone 🙏🏿 Thanks.”
In a video she posted on her social media handles, she said there are several fake social media handles bearing her name, but she never denied she posted half nude pictures of herself.
Insisting that the pictures are part of her working tools in her chosen profession, Ifunanya said she was not a practising lawyer and don’t intend to be one.
“Yes, I read law but I am not practising, I am into music , movies and modelling, I am not practising law and don’t intend to practise, so NBA should leave me alone “
