DSS, foreign observers to monitor NBA election – Osigwe

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has said that the July 18, 2026 National Election of the relation would beryllium monitored by the Department of State Services, DSS, and overseas observers to guarantee the integrity of the poll.

Osigwe said the information operatives and overseas observers are being brought connected committee arsenic autarkic radical that volition springiness nonsubjective reports astatine the extremity of the election.

Speaking during a property league successful Abuja on Friday, Osigwe dismissed fears of rigging being expressed by a conception of members of the NBA and assured that the process and the predetermination itself would beryllium escaped and fair.

The NBA President explained that contrary to the allegations of campaigner imposition against him, helium has nary peculiar involvement successful immoderate of the 3 candidates jostling to win him.

The 3 candidates are Olumuyiwa Akinboro, SAN, Lateef Akangbe Omoyele, SAN, and the lone female, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, each of whom are from the South-West.

Osigwe noted that a peculiar radical known arsenic ‘Egbe Amofin’ had been making frantic efforts to enforce a peculiar campaigner connected the NBA contrary to the constitution of the association.

He said that the NBA arsenic a assemblage volition not entity if 1 oregon 2 of the candidates measurement down for each different connected their ain volition but volition not...