Past chairmen declare Idemili NBA branch election transparent, free & fair

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Pioneer Chairman Chike Nonyelu (right) inaugurating the new executives of NBA Idemili bar at Ogidi

Past chairmen of Idemili branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA (a.k.a. Fountain Bar) have unanimously declared last weekend’s election which brought Barrister Boniface Ewulum-led set of new executive members into power, as very transparent, credible, free and fair.

The chairman who made the declaration shortly after the election at the Magistrate’s court hall, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state, included Chike Nonyelu, Maurice Efobi, Sylvester Ezeh, Ben Okoko and the immediate past, Pere Anthony Oseme, while Samuel Chukwukelu, a past chairman could not attend the election as a result of ill-health.
In their separate speeches, Nonyelu, Efobi, Ezeh, Okoko and Oseme praised the Barrister Michael Ogbuoto-led electoral committee for a thorough job done to ensure credible election and a smooth transition from old to new executive.

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They therefore charged the newly elected executive to focus their attention towards the welfare of the members, as well as place the completion of the on-going Bar Center project on top priority.
A member of the bar, Uche Darlington Okeke, an Executive Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on Legal Matters, who spoke at the end of the event, expressed satisfaction that the Fountain bar is gradually growing from strength to strength, even as he expressed optimism that the bar would become the best among its contemporaries in the future, based on the acceleration of development.
At the last count, Ewulum scored 46 votes to defeat his two other rivals, Ephraim Agubalu and a female lawyer, Chidi Nnaji who polled 15 and 14 votes each.

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Earlier before the election, each of the trio of Ewulum, Agubalu and Nnaji had pledged to expand the scope the Idemili branch bar horizon in the form of fighting human rights abuses, ensuring adequate welfare of the members and above all, completion of the on-going bar center project, among others.

Declaring the result of the election, Ogbuoto, the electoral committee chairman, noted that only the chairmanship position was contested for, while other positions were won on consensus basis. Ogbuoto reeled out the list of other executive members which included Chukwuemeka Iredu, Vice-Chairman; Odilichukwu Victor Ifediba, Secretary; Gloria Ukamaka Nwofia, Assistant Secretary; Obinna Okeke, Financial Secretary; Grace Smart Amara, Treasurer and Ezindu Uwamaka, Legal Adviser.

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All the new executive members, including the immediate past chairman, Oseme who became a representative of the branch bar at the National Executive Committee, NEC of the NBA national, were sworn-in by the pioneer chairman of the bar, Chike Nonyelu Esq. 

In his post election speech, Ewulum restated his earlier position to raise the standard of the branch bar to a higher status, now that the pendulum of victory has swung towards his own direction.

By Chukwudum Ebele

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