17th July, 2022
By Sandra Umeh
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, has emerged as the 36th President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
Maikyau polled a total of 22,342 votes to defeat two other contenders, Joe-Kyari Gadzama (SAN), Chairman of the NBA Securities Agencies Relations Committee; and Jonathan Taidi, a former General Secretary of the NBA.
The results were announced by the Chairman of the NBA Electoral Committee, Mr Ayodele Akintunde (SAN), at a hybrid press briefing on Sunday.
According to him, the total number of people on the final voter register stood at 59,392 while about 3,000 were disenfranchised due to the inability to verify their data.
“A total of 59,392 records were received for people on the 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.
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.
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