Olumide Akpata has been elected the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.
The former chairman of the NBA Section on Business Law defeated two other Senior Advocates of Nigeria – Dr. Babatunde Ajibade and Dele Adesina – to win the election.
In the election held on Thursday electronically, Akpata polled 9,891 votes while Ajibade polled 4,328 votes.
Adesina polled 3,982 votes.
Declaring Akpata the winner at the end of the exercise Friday morning, the chairman of the electoral committee, Tawo Tawo (SAN), said: “I, Tawo Tawo, the Chairman, Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), as the electoral officer for the 2020 National Officers’ Election, hereby declare Akpata Olumide Anthony, having scored the highest number of votes cast and satisfied the provisions of the constitution of the NBA 2015 (as amended), the winner of the election into the office of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association.”
