LOAN petitions NBA President over Kano Branch election dispute

The Law Officers Association of Nigeria (LOAN), Kano State Branch, has petitioned the National President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) implicit the precocious concluded Kano Branch elections.

The relation is protesting what it described arsenic “deliberate disobedience” of a zonal entreaty directive by the branch’s electoral umpire.

In a petition issued by LOAN officials and obtained on Tuesday, they accused the Kano Branch Election Committee (ELCOM) of allegedly disenfranchising its members during the polls, contempt a wide directive from the NBA Branch Elections Appeals Committee (Northern Zone).

The quality began anterior to the elections erstwhile the Kano Branch ELCOM disqualified 15 LOAN members from voting. ELCOM justified its enactment connected the grounds that immoderate of the affected lawyers had failed to wage either their subdivision subscription dues, their subdivision payment dues, oregon both, for the mandatory two-year period.

Dissatisfied with the disqualification, LOAN approached th...