Nigerian lawyers want Lesotho Law Society to conduct NBA national officers’ election

Following a suit that is threatening the forthcoming 2026 National Officers’ Election of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, a radical of Nigerian lawyers, nether the aegis of Nigerian Law Society, NLS, has projected that the Law Society of Lesotho should behaviour the poll.

The Nigerian Law Society made the connection successful a missive dated March 6, 2026, signed by its Executive Director, Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, and addressed to NBA President, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, and Jibrin Samuel Okupeta, SAN, pb counsel to a radical of NBA members who person gone to tribunal to halt the election.

The suit stemmed from concerns implicit the impartiality of the NBA President and members of the electoral committee successful the behaviour of the election.

At the moment, plans for the predetermination are connected clasp arsenic an Oyo State High Court had issued an interim bid restraining the electoral committee and the NBA President from proceeding with the exercise.

The Nigerian Law Society, successful the missive to the NBA President and the plaintiffs, projected an out-of-court colony statement whereby the Law Society of Lesotho would behaviour the election, arsenic an independent, neutral umpire.

Parts of the letter, seen by DAILY POST connected Friday, read: “The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, which is the umbrella relation of each litigation lawyers in...