NBA CONSTITUTION: Elections, Universal Suffrage May be Discarded as Mahmoud Inaugurates Review Committee
AB MAHMOUD SAN.
The Nigerian Bar Association President, Mr AB Mahmoud SAN has inaugurated a 13 man constitutional review committee to amend the recently adopted NBA constitution. The committee is chaired by Yusuf Ali SAN.
Inaugurating the committee, Mr Mahmoud urged the committee to specially consider an alternative to the current NBA structure, which has 136 branches with a national secretariat and leadership succession procedure which is currently by election through universal suffrage.
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According to Mr Mahmoud ” The current NBA leadership succession and election model are expensive, Primordial, Obsolete, Risky and may throw up mediocrity. Our existing system does not ensure that the best candidate will emerge. It ensures the primacy of politics over professionalism.
According to Mr Mahmoud, the committee is to submit its report and recommendations within six weeks of its inauguration for adoption at the National Executive Committee and General Meeting of the Association.
Mr Mahmoud has since his swearing-in as NBA President in August 2016, following a novel procedure of universal suffrage and online voting election, indicated his interest to the change leadership selection process of the association from universal suffrage election overwhelmingly adopted in 2015 by members, many of whom voted for the first time in 2016, to a model that will ensure Succession in Office by Officers of the Association.
Mr Mahmoud referred the committee to consider the leadership selection process of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria ICAN, which currently practices a delegate system where the officers of the Institute emerge by seamless Succession.
If the committee adopts Mr Mahmoud’s proposal, which is very likely, election into the office of the President of the Association will be by Succession and the universal suffrage which many members of the Association had fought for many years, before its adoption in 2015, may be Discarded and a delegate or semi-delegate system adopted.
The full list of the committee membership are as follows:
1. Yusuf O. Ali SAN – Chairman
2. Prof. Paul Idornegie
3. Prof. Tahir Maman
4. Hon. Obefemi Adewale
5. Prof. Ogugua Ikpeze
6. Mrs Abimbola Akeredolu SAN
7. Sagir Gezawa Esq
8. Yusuf Dadian Esq
9. Ogaga John Emoghwanre Esq
10. Mrs Mercy I Agada
11. Chris Nnoli Esq
12. Mustapha Adekola Esq
13. Al’ameen Abubakar Esq
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