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Group Alleges Rigging Of NBA Election, Claim 4000 Ghost Lawyers Voted As Akpata Calls For A United Bar

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SAN FRANCISCO, August 05, (THEWILL) – The South-West Lawyers’ Forum, popularly known as Egbe Amofin, has alleged massive rigging of last week Nigerian Bar Association election, calling for the cancellation of the exercise.

The group in a communiqué signed by the Chairman of its Steering Committee, Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN), and Secretary, Dr Oluwole Akintayo, claimed that 4,000 ‘ghost voters’ were smuggled into the voters’ register.

The Egbe Amofin also alleged the “creation of an International Diaspora Branch of the NBA for voting – a phenomenon that is strange and unknown to the NBA constitution.”

Mr Dele Adesina (SAN), who was the consensus presidential candidate of the Egbe Amofin, came third in the election, which was won by Mr Olumide Akpata, an outer bar member.

Another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Babatunde Ajibade, who disagreed with Egbe Amofin on the adoption of Adesina as consensus presidential candidate of the South-West lawyers, came second in the election.

In its communiqué, the Egbe Amofin said the return of Akpata as the winner of the election by the Electoral Committee of the NBA was unlawful and violated the NBA constitution, given the alleged irregularities.

The Egbe Amofin said, “Over 4000 ‘voters’ appeared on the emergency voters’ list used for the election and these ghost voters have no identifiable branches or are not linked or traceable to any branch.”

The Egbe Amofin added that as of the time the electronic election ended at 11pm last Thursday, not less than 13,000 of the 29,636 lawyers accredited had not voted.

It said with the alleged huge unlawful disenfranchisement of voters, even the Independent National Electoral Committee, which was randomly criticised, would not have declared any candidate winner the way the ECNBA did.

ALSO READ: Olumide Akpata Wins NBA Presidential Election In Landslide

The New NBA Chairman, Akpata, who has since received his Certificate of Return and congratulated by many notable lawyers and personalities including President Muhammadu Buhari, has urged all members of the association to unite and help make the bar work for all lawyers.

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