SUNRISE NEWS, Lagos, July 31, 2020 Olumide Akpata has emerged as the winner of the NBA Presidential poll, which held electronically between 11pm on Wednesday and 11pm yesterday.
The Chairman Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, ECNBA, Chief Taiwo Taiwo (SAN), made the announcement at the end of the poll.
Akpata polled 9,891 votes to defeat Dr Babatunde Ajibade (SAN) and Mr Dele Adesina (SAN).
Ajibade emerged first runner-up with 4,328 votes while Adesina picked the rear with 3,982 votes.
Though a total of 29,636 lawyers were accredited to vote in the e-election, only 18,256 succeeded in casting their ballots.
Meanwhile, the first runner-up, Ajibade, SAN, has described the process as a sham and called on the electoral committee to cancel it.
The call is contained in his petition which he personally signed and addressed to the electoral committee chairman on Thursday.
He alleged in the petition that the voter register used for the election contained “grave errors” which violated the provisions of the NBA constitution.
