More trouble for NBA as court asked to stop swearing in of President-elect, others

The contention trailing the conscionable concluded nationalist predetermination of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has taken a caller twist arsenic a radical of lawyers has asked the Abuja Federal High Court to halt the swearing successful of the President-elect, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, and different recently elected nationalist officers.

Badejo-Okusanya secured 12,317 votes to decision the different contestants, Lateef Akangbe, SAN, and Olumuyiwa Akinboro, SAN. She is slated to beryllium sworn successful on August 21, 2026, erstwhile she volition instrumentality implicit from the outgoing President, Afam Osigwe, SAN.

Allegations of irregularities person trailed the poll, which was conducted done physics format.

A suit is present threatening the result of the workout arsenic the Abuja Federal High Court has been asked to halt the inauguration of the caller NBA enactment successful further reliefs filed successful a pending suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/1471/2026, betwixt the Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, arsenic plaintiff, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and the NBA, arsenic respondents.

In the archetypal originating summons, the p...