NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IKEJA BRANCH
CARETAKER COMMITTEE
ELECTORAL PROCEDURE AND GUIDELINES

The Nigerian Bar Association Ikeja Branch Caretaker Committee after a thorough deliberation today Tuesday 22nd September, 2020, decided as follows:

That the Caretaker Committee would wind up its activities on 30th September 2020 as the Committee does not intend to seek for any extension of its earlier mandate. That the Branch election earlier on fixed for Friday 25th September, 2020 has been rescheduled for TUESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2020 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.
That election shall be conducted into the following offices of the NBA Ikeja Branch
namely:-
a. Vice Chairman
b. Secretary
c. Assistant Secretary
d. Treasurer (unopposed)
e. Financial Secretary
f. Social Secretary
g. Publicity Secretary (unopposed)
h. Welfare Secretary
i. Legal Adviser
j. Provost

That the Committee has decided to put on hold election into the office of the Chairman in view of the fact that one of the chairmanship candidates has approached the court for the interpretation of Article 6(3) of the Uniform Bye-Laws 2015 and the Committee has been served with the court processes.

This is in line with decided casesin Ojokwu V Gov. Lagos State (1985) 2NWLR (Pt 10) 806; Okeke-Oba V Okoye (1994) 8NWLR (Pt 364) 605 at 607; Vaswani V Savalakh (1972) 1 ALL NLR 483, among others.Campaigns by candidates will commence on Tuesday 22nd September, 2020 by 12midnight and end 12 midnight of Sunday 27th September, 2020. Campaigns should be issue based devoid of indecent languages.

Candidates are allowed to publish their campaign materials on any of the Branch Social Media Platforms.Accreditation and Election will take place simultaneously. Only voters whose names appear on the final voters list already published by the Committee shall be eligible to vote. Voters whose names appear in the final voters list of the Branch with a valid means of identification either the Branch identity card or any of the followings; Driver’s Licence,National Identity Card, Voter’s Card and International Passport, shall be admitted into the voting arena. Each candidate is to submit the name of ONE (1) agent to the Committee on the morning of the election.

Only eligible voters who are already on the queue as at 4:00pm shall be accredited and allowed to vote as the voting time shall not be extended.

Immediately after the conclusion of the voting the counting of votes will commence.
LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2020

VICE CHAIRMAN

ADEDOYIN ADEREMI SOBIYE
NKECHI ONYENSO
SECRETARY

FATAI ADEYEMI ABIJO
TITILAYO OMOBOLANLE OSAGIE
ASSISTANT SECRETARY

MUHAMMED JIMOH
EZEKIEL OLUGBENGA BODUNDE
FINANCIAL SECRETARY

ADEMILOLA ADEOLA
ENAKADIA DANIEL OVBIGHO
DEBORAH FREDRICK EMAWODIA
SOCIAL SECRETARY

ADESOLA ADEKUNBI OLUSOGA
KOMOLAFE OLANREWAJU LATIFAH
WELFARE SECRETARY

ADEOLA FOLARIN
CHIKA OKOLIE
LEGAL ADVISER

AMADIGWE-DIKE UGBOAKU
CHINEMEREM TRACY
BAMIDELE OJUYENUM
PROVOST

ABDULHAMEED AHMED
OMOZUSI V. OMOKHAFE
UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES

TREASURER
BASIL TUNDE OWOLABI

PUBLICITY SECRETARY

JOSEPH OLUMUDI
SIGNED
CARETAKER COMMITTEE
NBA IKEJA BRANCH