Jennifer Ugwueke
A new development has emerged over the outcome of the just-concluded elections of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
One of the Presidential candidates in the elections, Dele Adesina, has asked the association’s Body of Trustees to cancel the elections, Channels TV reports. Adesina had earlier on, filed a petition before the body describing the election as “electronic fraud, illegal and unconstitutional.”
He cited some pre-election concerns and agitations which were allegedly neglected and disregarded by the electoral committee and alleged that the Voters’ Register used in the 2020 election was a sham, illegal, doctored and manipulated.
The candidate also alleged that the data in the election results monitoring site was programmed to produce a premeditated result and many voters were also disenfranchised. Adesina, therefore, called on the Chairman of NBA Board of Trustees, Olisa Agbakoba to “rise up and save the Association by cancelling the elections and conducting a fresh one.” The elections were conducted electronically on Wednesday, July 29 to Thursday, July 30.
Recall that DgovScoops had reported that Olumide Akpata, the immediate past Chairman of the NBA’s Section on Business Law, emerged the winner of the Presidential election, defeating Adesina and Babatunde Ajibade.
The new NBA President, Olumide Akpata, polled 1,002 votes which represented 54.8% of the total votes cast at the election. Akpata floored two contenders at the poll: Babatunde Ajibade who polled 808 votes and Julius Adesina who claimed 679 votes. According to reports, Akpata is the first President of the association to emerge from the outer bar in 30 years.