‘2026 NBA Elections: Challenges mount as 3 SANs eye presidential seat’
Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) were cleared to vie for the NBA presidency, two candidates for 1st Vice-President, one candidate for 3rd Vice-President, and five lawyers will contest the General Secretary position.
Among those seeking election as representatives of the General Council of the Bar for the various zones, five lawyers were cleared to contest the Eastern Zone election, two for the Western Zone, while five will contest to represent the Northern Zone.
Specifically, Egbe Amofin O’odua, an association of lawyers of Yoruba extraction, is insisting the NBA must adopt one of the presidential aspirants, Aare Akinboro, SAN, as the sole candidate for the election, having declared him its consensus candidate for the Western Zone — whose turn it is to produce the next NBA President.
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