–Olanipekun, Niyi Akintola, Lawal Pedro at closed door meeting…
-Niyi Akintola SAN boasts stopping Ooni of Ife from receiving NBA President-Elect…

Just a day after the Trustees of the Nigerian Bar Association dismissed the petition of Dele Adesina SAN against the outcome of the recent NBA elections, a group of about 50 supporters of DASAN held a virtual meeting on 20th August 2020 under the guise of Egbe Amofin Oodua and resolved to procure injunctive reliefs from the court to stop the imminent inauguration of the NBA President-Elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata.

This development is coming in the wake of the keenly contested July 2020 NBA elections where Dele Adesina, SAN came a distant third.

A source told our correspondent that the DASAN supporters appear to have taken over the Egbe Amofin platform to vent their misgivings and legitimize their grievances about the election. Our reporters gathered that at the virtual meeting, the supporters, while claiming that the election which had over 19,000 lawyers voting was a fraud, boasted that they will use the instrumentality of Nigerian court system to truncate the inauguration scheduled for 29th August 2020.

Our source stated that the meeting was attended by Deacon Dele Adesina SAN and most of his prominent supporters like Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN; Chief Niyi Akintola SAN and a former Solicitor-General of Lagos state, Mr. Lawal Pedro SAN, amongst others. At the meeting, these prominent supporters made it clear that they were perfecting plans to obtain an injunctive relief from a friendly judge.

The meeting attendees further resolved to create a rival body to the NBA. Particularly, the prominent supporters were in a hurry to approve a new draft constitution for Egbe Amofin Oodua and concluded that it was time to form a parallel body to the NBA. They set this in motion by setting up a committee to finalize the details of the constitution of this parallel organisation.

In a related development, Niyi Akintola SAN, had at the meeting boasted of rallying some first-class traditional rulers to call the Ooni of Ife and impress on him not to receive the NBA President-Elect at his palace two Sundays ago. This development is worrisome, and it appears the intent is targeted at frustrating the efforts of the President-Elect of the NBA and his team as they gear up for the commencement of the new administration. Lawyers and indeed Nigerians are hoping that the DASAN camp will allow reason to prevail and desist from the path being towed for the good of the NBA.