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General News of Friday, 31 July 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

NBA Poll: Akpata wins presidential elections

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The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association has declared Olumide Akpata winner of the NBA presidential poll, which held electronically between 11pm on Wednesday and 11pm on Thursday.

The Chairman of the ECNBA, Chief Tawo Tawo (SAN), announced at the end of the poll late last night that Akpata polled 9,891 votes to defeat Dr Babatunde Ajibade (SAN) and Mr Dele Adesina (SAN).

Ajibade emerged first runner-up with 4,328 votes while Adesina picked the rear with 3,982 votes.

Though a total of 29,636 lawyers were accredited to vote in the e-election, only 18,256 succeeded in casting their ballots.

Akpata scored 54.3 per cent of the cast votes to emerge winner.