#NBADecides2026: What future for an independent bar?, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
This year, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) confronts its own moment of truth concerning how far conventions initially designed to accommodate national diversity in its leadership processes can be converted into ethno-tribal vetoes by entities that in fact are not part of its institutional or constitutional organs.
After 15 years, the NBA wrote this convention into its constitution by way of an amendment which mandated that“the Association shall for the purpose of elections of National Officers be divided into three geographical zones namely – Northern zone, Eastern zone and Western zone.
Three score and three years ago, a defining dispute erupted in the old Western Region of Nigeria over the scope and reach of constitutional conventions in determining or terminating the tenure of high-level political leadership.
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