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Ensuring Free and Fair NBA Elections
Jul 14, 2020
Since the introduction of universal suffrage by e-voting in 2016, the elections of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) into national offices have been fraught with allegations of irregularities, manipulation and deliberate tampering with the process. This has oftentimes resulted in litigation, some of which is still pending in court. In a couple of weeks, Nigerian Lawyers will go to polls again to pick their national officers for the Association. Human Rights Lawyer, Dr Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, who has always advocated for free and fair NBA elections, proffers a panacea to the NBA which can guarantee a free, fair and credible election come July 29 and 30, 2020. The question is whether the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA), will give these suggestions any consideration
Too Big to be Left Alone: The 2020 Elections of the Nige rian Bar Association
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
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Seyi is a Lawyer, practicing somewhere in North-Central Nigeria. He has been enrolled for more than five years, and is active in his Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). He is active on social media, and is competent in basic digital applications. He is punctilious about paying his Annual Practicing Fees and, as an ambitious Lawyer who desires to rise up the highest echelons of the professional grease-pole, he is also fully paid up on his Branch membership dues and has been for over five years. As such, Seyi was pleased, but not surprised when he saw his name among those listed as eligible to vote in the NBA’s leadership elections at the end of July 2020. To activate his voting right, however, Seyi needed to go to the NBA portal to verify himself. After four days of trying unsuccessfully, he had exhausted the help menu available, run out of his phone-a-friend options and was himself exhausted. The last time a similar ballot took place in 2018, similar frustrations with “verification” had precluded Seyi from voting. There was, for him therefore, a sense of déjà vu to this experience.
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