Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) over the planned conferment of the rank of senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on Senior Sulyman Ibrahim, Kwara’s state attorney-general and commissioner for justice.
The CJN chairs the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC), the body responsible for conferring the SAN rank.
In a petition dated May 25, 2026 and seen by TheCable, Saraki said Ibrahim’s official conduct “completely falls short of the high standard of integrity, honour, and professional ethics required of any practitioner worthy of being elevated to the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria”.
The former senate president alleged that the Kwara attorney-general brought the legal profession into “disrepute” by preferring or causing to be preferred charges that “he knows or ought to have known have no basis in law and were merely designed as a political weapon against me”.
