A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
According to the results of the 2024 NBA election held online and monitored by our correspondent, Osigwe, the former Secretary-General of NBA got the highest number of votes for the position of President.
Also, Mrs Bridget Ijeoma Edokwe emerged as the Publicity Secretary of the association.
The voting began at 12am on Saturday and ended at 1.59pm with the live results for all positions displayed un real-time on https://go.ecnba.org/results/
As of 2am on Sunday, Osigwe secured 20,395 votes, defeating his closest rival and chairman of the NBA Institute of Continuing Legal Education Governing Council, Tobenna Erojikwe, who scored 10,970 votes while former chairman of NBA Lagos Branch, Chukwuka Ikwuazom (SAN), got 9,007 votes.
Osigwe is set to succeed the outgoing president of NBA, Yakubu Maikyau (SAN).
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