A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association after winning its presidential election.
Mr Osigwe, who is a former General Secretary of the NBA between 2014 and 2016, polled 20,435 votes, more than half of the total ballots cast for the presidential position, to defeat his two rivals.
Tobenna Erojikwe came a distant second with 10,998 votes, and another SAN, Chukwuka Ikuazom, who announced withdrawing from the race in the middle of the election on Saturday, came third with 9,018 votes.
The voting by accredited members of the NBA took place electronically between 12 a.m. and 11.59 a.m. on Saturday.
As of the time voting closed, 40,451 votes were tallied for the office of the association’s president with 205 abstentions, according to the results portal updated every minute during the election by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA).
Winners also emerged from the elections of nine other national officers.
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