Opinion: NBADecides 2020: The Election of Unintended Consequences, By Chidi Odinkalu
Balloting for the leadership vote of the Nigerian Bar Association on July 29 had both indeterminacy and predictability – indeterminacy as to whom the outgoing leadership truly backed to succeed it but predictability as to the inadequacy of the arrangements for the vote. With just over 130,000 lawyers on Roll, the Nigerian Bar prides itself as the largest professional organisation in Africa.
Two factors would ultimately feature the most in the campaigns and prefigure the outcome. One was that both Adesina and Ajibade were Senior Advocates of Nigeria , while Akpata, a former Chair of the NBA’s Section on Business Law , built his practice and reputation as an expert in transactions, with in being one. The other was that both Adesina and Ajibade are seen as Yoruba from the western states of Nigeria. This is where the story gets interesting.
This letter was not meant to be public. Sometime in the last week of June, it leaked, suggesting that someone among its recipients found it in poor taste. But taste was the least of the problems with it. First, it was a mis-guided attempt to clothe narrow ethnic advocacy with high purpose and to end-run the democratic process. To understand its direction of travel, Adesina became SAN in 2007, ahead of Ajibade who took the rank in 2009.
The list of voters should be compiled through a data reconciliation process between the records of the Supreme Court, the NBA Secretariat and each of the 125 branches. The Association has historically never bothered to do this because the gaps are profitable for election rigging and private profit. It was not much different in these elections.
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