A founding Director General of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Earl Osaro Onaiwu has called on the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee and also the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to apply stiff sanction on a lawyer, Ehiogie West-Idahosa.

Onaiwu said the call has become necessary over some incessant misconduct by the lawyer.

He listed an action of the barrister in misleading the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation(AGF), Abubakar Malami, through a petition, to issue a sub-judicial instruction to the Nigerian Police Force over the matter of Edo State House of Assembly.

Mr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa had written to the Office of the AGF,asking for his intervention in the crisis that is rocking the State Assembly despite the fact that the matter is currently before a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt. The AGF has consequently asked the Inspector General of Police to provide security for dissident members-elect of the Assembly.

Onaiwu declared such action as totally irresponsible and unbecoming of a practitioner with fairly long years at the bar.

He further noted that Mr. West-Idahosa, against standard rule in the legal profession stood as both a prosecuting and defence counsel to Mr. Adams Oshiomhole in the same matter in the same court, being the Federal High Court.

Onaiwu recalled that Mr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa was the counsel to Bishop Osadolor Ochei when the latter dragged Oshiomhole to the Federal High Court over fraud and contract inflation in the construction of Edo Specialist Hospital in 2018.

He said the same West-Idahosa duplicitously transmuted into Adams Oshiomhole's counsel when the former governor sued the Attorney General of Edo State over the same subject matter, obtaining an ex parte to stop Oshiomhole's probe.

Onaiwu reckoned that Osagie West-Idahosa's conduct in the aforementioned matter gravely contradicts Rule of Professional Conduct on conflict of interest and duty of counsel to uphold the rule of law.

He therefore asked the regulatory bodies in the legal profession to de-bar Mr. West-Idahosa to serve as a deterrent to other members of the noble profession who may want to offer themselves to politicians as instruments of anarchy and injustice.