Some members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Kano State have disowned a press statement issued by Sagir Suleman Gezawa, chairman of the association.

In a statement issued on Monday, the lawyers, 28 of them, warned Gezawa to desist from dragging the professional body into politics.

The statement was titled, “Rejoinder to NBA Kano Branch Chairman (Sagir Suleiman Gezawa, esq) on the proper mode of enforcement of order of the court and a clarion call not to engage the NBA in partisan politics.”

The NBA members said, “We finally state that the statement issued by the chairman is his personal opinion and not the opinion of members of the NBA and he should please desist from any act of dragging the NBA into the mud of politics. The chairman should be called to order.”

They said they were appalled by Mr Gezawa’s emphasis that the controversial statement “was issued as a body.”

The lawyers said, “We believe such a statement is the personal opinion of the chairman because we were never consulted and it is never our opinion and never the opinion of members of the Kano Branch. The chairman is to express the view of the branch and not his personal opinion.