After weeks of brickbats and legal battle over the 2016 Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA), lawyers, yesterday, elected Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria as their President. Mahmoud, a former Kano State Justice Commissioner and Attorney- General was elected through the association’s newly adopted universal suffrage and electronic voting.
He will lead the Bar until 2018. Mahmoud will on August 23 take over the NBA’s leadership from Mr. Augustine Alegeh as the 33rd President of the lawyers’ umbrella body. He was declared winner by the NBA Electoral Committee having polled 3,055 votes to beat his opponent, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama. Gadzama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria polled 2,384 votes.
Other winners are Mr. Caleb Gal Dajan, First Vice President; Mr. Monday Ubani, Second Vice President and Mr. Benedict Oji, Third Vice President, all of whom were returned unopposed. Mr. Isiaka Olagunju polled 2,721 votes to beat Mr. Desmond Yamah, who polled 2,510 votes, while the post of First Assistant Secretary went to Mr. Okey Leo Ohagba, who received 2,402 votes to beat his closet rival, Mr. Olukunle Edun, who polled 1,653 votes. Mr. Enebi Mohammed Salihu polled 1,067 votes to place third.
Other winners are Ugbuji Cecilia Ngede, Second Assistant Secretary; Ado Aisha Abdullahi, Treasurer; Adesina Adegbite, Welfare Secretary; Ngozi Udodi, Financial Secretary; Dorcas Ngwu, Assistant Financial Secretary; Chuwuemeka Mbamala, Assistant Publicity Secretary, and Oyeyemi Rafiu Balogun, Legal Adviser.
The campaign team of Mahmoud’s opponent, Gadzama had asked an Abuja High Court to compel the NBA to postpone the elections on various grounds of alleged underhand ahead of the July 30 and 31 dates fixed
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