July 17, (THEWILL) – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, has emerged as the 36th President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.
Maikyau emerged winner after polling a total of 22,342 votes to defeat two other contenders, Chairman of the NBA Securities Agencies Relations Committee, Joe-Kyari Gadzama (SAN), and a former General Secretary of the NBA, Jonathan Taidi.
Announcing the results, Chairman of the NBA Electoral Committee, Ayodele Akintunde (SAN), said, “A total of 59,392 records were received as people on final voter register, and we were able to upload 59,388 records with four records being invalid contact information.
“A total of 34,809 votes were cast representing 58.61 percent of the total number of eligible voters, while 1,314 ballots opened, but were not cast.”
He said that Maikyau polled 22,342 votes representing 64.6 percent of votes cast for the office of the president, while Gadzama polled 10,842 votes and Taidi polled 1,380.
The elections were through electronic voting.
Maikyau succeeds Olumide Akpata elected in 2020.
Akpata made history as the only NBA President in the past 10 years who is not a senior advocate of Nigeria.
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