A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, has emerged the 36th president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) during electronic elections held on Saturday.
He polled a total of 22,342 votes to defeat two other contenders, Messrs Joe-Kyari Gadzama (SAN), Chairman of the NBA Securities Agencies Relations Committee; and Jonathan Taidi, a former General Secretary of the NBA.
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According to the Chairman of the NBA Electoral Committee, Mr Ayodele Akintunde (SAN), who announced the results at a hybrid press briefing on Sunday, the total number of people on the final voter register stood at 59,392 while about 3,000 were disenfranchised due to the inability to verify their data.
He said that Maikyau polled 22,342 votes representing 64.6 per cent of votes cast for the office of the president, while Gadzama polled 10,842 votes and Taidi polled 1,380.
Other winners of the elections are Mrs Linda Bala (First Vice President), Clement Ugo (Second Vice President) and Mrs Amanda Demechi-Asagba (Third Vice President).
Adesina Adegbite won the election for the office of the General Secretary, Daniel Kip (Assistant General Secretary), Mrs Caroline Anze-Bishop (Treasurer), Ms Chinyere Obasi (welfare secretary), Habeeb Lawal (Publicity Secretary) and Charles Ajiboye (Assistant Publicity Secretary).
