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Olumide Akpata, one of the lawyers who vied in the
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) election, has emerged president of
the association.
He led his closest rival with over 5,000 votes when voting
stopped at 11pm on Thursday.
The polls commenced at 11pm on Wednesday.
The NBA election committee declared him winner of the
exercise.
“I Tawo Eja Taw, the chairman electoral committee of the
Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), as the electoral officer for the
2020 national officers election hereby declare that Akpata Olumide
Anthony, having scored the highest number of votes cast and
satisfying the provisions of the constitution of the NBA 2015 as
amended, as the winner of the election into the office of president
of the NBA,” Tawo Taw, chairman of the committee, declared.
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The electronic platform which is open for real-time monitoring
showed that Akpata polled 9,891 votes ahead of Babatunde Ajibade
(SAN) and Dele Adesina (SAN) who scored 4,328 votes and 3,982 votes
respectively.
The portal also showed that there were 29,636 registered voters
but only 18,256 persons cast their ballots.
Adesina had earlier called for the cancellation of the
polls, alleging gross manipulation. He alleged that there
was over voting and disenfranchisement of some voters.
Akpata, who is not a member of the inner bar (senior advocate of
Nigeria), was a former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association
(NBA) section on Business Law.