NBA President Appoints Mazi Afam Osigwe To Chair NBA Elections Monitoring Team

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, has constituted
the NBA Elections Monitoring Team to monitor the oncoming General
Elections in Nigeria.

The Team is made of a twenty-two members with Mazi Adam Osigwe
as Chairman.

Editor-In-Chief of TheNigerialawyer (TNL) has also been
appointed a member of the Committee.

Below reads the press
statement 

NBA NATIONAL COMMITTEE
FOR THE MONITORING OF THE 2019 NATIONAL
ELECTIONS.

1. I am pleased to announce the constitution of a Committee, at
   the National NBA Level, made up of the underlisted members, to
   monitor and report on the 2019 National Election

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1. Prior to their appointment , I spoke on this assignment with
   each of the afore­ listed Committee members and I thank them for
   agreeing to I thank in particular, Ma zi Afam Osigwe, for accepting
   to serve as the Chairman of the Committee. The 2015 National
    Elections were conducted during his tenure as the

General Secretary of the NBA and it is the experience and skills
that he garnered at the time in monitoring those Elections, amongst
other attributes, that recommend him for this assignment.

3. Almost all our colleagues that served in our Monitoring
Committee for the Osun Governorship Elections (“Osun Monitoring
Committee”) that were held in September 2018 have been
reconstituted into this enlarged National Committee. The Osun
Monitoring Committee did the NBA very proud in all respects and we
are building on the credibility of that team and their report of
that Election in carrying out the present assignment.

4. In each State of the Federation (the Federal Capital
Territory inclusive), we have, in collaboration with the Branches
in the States constituted monitoring committees that would work
with the National Monitoring Team in monitoring and reporting on
the Elections in the respective States. We thank the Branches for
their support and assistance in carrying out this national
assignment and count on the professionalism, devotion to duties and
patriotic spirit of the constituted teams in the various
States.

5. The National Monitoring Team will operate mostly from Abuja
but would maintain direct and unbroken communication with the
feeder teams in the various States of the Federation. National
Officers and our Secretariat personnel will also be on hand to
assist both at the State and National levels. Our members with
ideas and suggestions for the teams are welcome to pass them on
either directly to the Chairman of the National Committee or
through our National Secretariat.

6. The task before the Committees is enormous but we have
confidence in the teams that we have constituted both at the
national and State levels and we assure Nigerians that the NBA will
live up to its reputation for fact-based reporting,
nonpartisanship, integrity and objectivity in its monitoring of the
Elections, not any different from our monitoring and reporting of
the Osun Governorship Elections which remains a Nigerian reference
point in election monitoring and reporting.

Paul Usoro, SAN President