Akpata Wins NBA Presidential Election
Mr Olumide Akpata has been declared winner of the Nigerian Bar Association presidential election 2020, which held electronically between 11pm on Wednesday and 11pm on Thursday.
Although a total of 29,636 lawyers were accredited to vote in the e-election, however only 18,256 succeeded in casting their ballots. “Upon the receipt of the Verified Voters list published about five hours to the commencement of the election, my team and I after painstaking perusal of the list observed that the list contained grave errors of omission and commission including but not limited to the following; names of purported lawyers without branches ascribed to them and serial number 25171 to 29635; names of lawyers under the subheading, “international diaspora” from serial number 12182 to 12268″, a clear violation of the...
He disclosed that after he did with the President of the NBA and a member of the Electoral Committee, some explanations were made though unsatisfactory by which time voting had actually started. Some of the branches which protested according to him include Ibadan, Ado-Ekiti, Gombe, Katsina, Birnin-Kebbi, Yobe, Kaduna and Enugu. The protesters had claimed that they did not receive the link to vote and some of those who received the link could not vote.
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