Senior lawyer urges NBA president-elect to unite Nigeria’s divided Bar
The outgoing NBA President, Afam Osigwe, a SAN, however, defended the integrity of the election, saying the process survived a coordinated cyberattack that disrupted electronic voting for several hours before the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) and its technical team migrated the exercise to a more secure server.
Kemi Pinheiro, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and legal scholar, has urged the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, to make reconciliation and unity the defining priorities of her administration as she prepares to assume leadership of Africa’s largest association of lawyers.
Mr Pinheiro made the call in a congratulatory statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday following Mrs Badejo-Okusanya’s historic election as the first woman to be directly elected president of the NBA by the association’s membership.
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