The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has elected Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as its next president after she polled the most votes when voting officially ended Sunday morning.
Badejo-Okusanya, the only female among the three presidential candidates, polled 12,317 votes to emerge as the winner of the election which was held through electronic voting for 24 hours, from 7:35 a.m. on Saturday to 7:34 a.m. on Sunday.
She defeated her two male challengers, receiving 47.18 per cent of the 26,106 ballots cast in the presidential election, based on the final tally on the Live Election Results dashboard maintained by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA).
Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, also a SAN, secured 7,934 votes (30.39 per cent) to come second and Olumuyiwa Akinboro, another SAN, polled 5,855 votes (22.43 per cent) to take the third position.
The live results dashboard updated every 10 seconds throughout the voting period.
The final results showed that the total votes cast across 13 national officers’ elections stood at 26,184, representing 31.86 per cent voter turnout of the total 82,172 registered voters.
However, the ECNBA had yet to officially announce the results as of the time of time filing this report.
When inaugurated, Mrs Badejo-Okusanya will be the 33rd president of the NBA.
She will be the second woman to lead the Nigerian Bar in its 66-year-old history, following Priscilla Kuye, who emerged as the first president of the association of Nigerian lawyers in 1991 and held the position until 1992.
The NBA will inaugurate its new national officers who emerged from Saturday’s election during its Annual General Conference scheduled for August 21 and 28 August in Port Harcourt Rivers State. The outgoing president, Afam Osigwe, and his co-executives are expected to hand over to the new leadership during the conference
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