Our attention has been drawn to an upcoming Online Poll to be hosted and conducted by persons behind a certain Facebook Group known as Nigerian Bar Association Members.

It would be recalled that sometime in February 2020, the same group conducted an online poll to which we wilfully participated from onset, with honest belief that membership of the said group going by its name consists of lawyers alone. Days into the said poll, our friend and preferred aspirant for the office of NBA General Secretary, Okey Leo Ohagba,Esq maintained and sustained a comfortable lead, undoubtedly as a result of the love and support he enjoys from members of the Bar. We however pulled out of the said poll when it was discovered few hours to the end of the poll, that the persons behind the poll skewed the poll to ensure a predetermined result for a particular aspirant by allowing non-lawyers participation.

It may interest you also to recall that about the same period, another Online poll was conducted on the platform of another Facebook group known as Lawyers in Nigeria, another independent Facebook group for Lawyers with over 35k membership. The poll by this group was of relative credibility and was won as rightly expected by our own Okey Ohagba.

However, after reviewing these online polls, and the credibility concerns linked to some, and in utmost allegiance to the NBA Constitution cum ECNBA guidelines for the forthcoming NBA Elections, we have decided henceforth, NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY ONLINE POLL by whatsoever name called.

We see these polls as a distraction to our teeming supporters who are working assiduously to participate in the main elections scheduled for 24/25 July 2020.

This decision is made to enable our friend focus on the task ahead and to afford our teeming supporters the opportunity to concentrate on their personal businesses having regard to the fact that we will need them during the main elections.

More so, the present mood of the Nation calls for sober reflections, prayers and innovative ideas to navigate this Coronavirus quagmire that has badly affected lawyers earnings. It’s definitely not a time to engage in such online trivialities.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience this decision might have caused the organisers and our teeming supporters. We urge you to save your energy for the main elections. We believe our principal would give his nod to our decision to pull out of these polls.

We thank you for believing in our dear friend, Okey Ohagba and for supporting his vision for #InnovativeSecretariat #InnovativeBar

PLEASE STAY SAFE

Sincerely,
BRIGHT NDA OWHOR, ESQ.
For:
FRIENDS OF OKEY OHAGBA
(OKEY IS OK)

SOURCE: TheNigerialawyer