NBA: Egbe Amofin Oodua condemns annulment of UYO Spidel Election

…calls for dissolution of 2026 NBA Election Committee

A group of all lawyers of Yoruba extraction, Egbe Amofin Oodua, has condemned the annulment of the Uyo Spidel Election by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

Egbe Amofin Oodua made the condemnation in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by its Chairman, Governing Council, Aare Isiaka Olagunju SAN and the Secretary, Adetunji Oso SAN.

The group said the NBA President, Mazi Adam Osigwe allegedly truncated the electoral process and handpicked the members of the caretaker committee to run the affairs of the SPIDEL for the next two years.

” It is worrisome that the NBA which has become the conscience of the nation by insisting on due process and berating all the dictatorial tendencies of government will allow his Chief – Spoke person, i.e (The president) to engage in act antithetical to democratic norms. The EGBE AMOFIN OoDUA is concerned that the NBA is losing her moral fiber to challenge dictatorial and undemocratic tendencies whenever it rears its ugly head”, said Egbe Amofin Oodua.

The group alleged the NBA President of choosing his personal friends as members of the Election Committee of NBA (ECNBA) 2026, calling for the dissolution of the electoral committee.

” We commend the trio of Dr. Anne Agi, Bridget Udokwe and Barbara Tosan Onwubiko for finding and sustaining the courage to fight for their conviction for a Bar that works for all of us. We bring massage of solidarity from Egbe Amofin Oodua and assure them, that at this point in time when the so-called advocates of “Women for Women” had abandoned them to be thrown under the bus for political expediency. We will stand with them shoulder to shoulder in their struggle against tranny in NBA and against anybody who might want to truncate the popular will of majority of NBA members”, the statement read.