NBA Advocates Independent Candidacy, Describes Section 221 as Fraud Wale Igbintade The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yakubu Mikyau, yesterday called for the amendment of the 1999 constitution to giv
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association , Yakubu Mikyau, yesterday called for the amendment of the 1999 constitution to give room for independent candidacy in the Nigerian electoral process.
Speaking at the 19th Annual Gani Fawehinmi lecture put together by the Ikeja branch of the NBA, held at the Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Mikyau, charged lawyers across the country to ensure that the forthcoming 2023 general election, slated to hold in February, are free, fair, and credible. “We all know what goes on in these political parties, that is why we don’t get the best of us to emerge as candidate for us to choose at the general elections. Whatever they produce that is what we are limited to in term of our choice. I think it is a fraud that is committed on us.
“In 2002, INEC released guidelines to regulate registration of political parties in the country. Gani’s National Conscience Party was one of the political parties that applied but denied registration. He went to court to seek redress In her Keynote address, former chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Mrs. Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei, charged the Federal Government of Nigeria to deal with the issue of insecurity to foster confidence in the citizenry.
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