Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, has won the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) 2022 national elections which held on Saturday.
Maikyau won by polling 22,342 votes or 64.6 per cent in an electronic voting exercise.
He defeated his two rivals, Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, who polled 10,842 votes or 31.4 per cent and Jonathan Taidi who polled 1380 votes or four per cent.
Maikyau will be sworn in as NBA President when the tenure of incumbent Olumide Akpata ends next month
According to the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), 59,392 lawyers – the highest ever in NBA history – were cleared to vote.
Announcing the results on Sunday morning in Abuja, ECNBA chairman Richard Ayodele Akintunde said 34,564 votes were cancelled for the office of President, with 245 abstentions.
The other elected officials are as follow:
Lynda Bala Rose — 1st Vice President
Clement Chukwuemeka — 2nd Vice President
Ade Adegbite — General Secretary
Daniel Kip. — Assistant Sec.
Caroline Ladidi Bishop — Treasurer
Habib Lawal — Publicity Secretary
Ajiboye Charles Olawale — Assistant Publicity Secretary
Chineye Obasi — Welfare Secretary
Maikyau’s victory means a SAN will return to the NBA leadership saddle two years after Akpata broke the senior lawyers’ hold on the office.
The incoming president was born on February 6, 1965 in Kebbi State.
He obtained a bachelor of law (LLB) degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna state in 1989, and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Maikyau was called to the Nigerian bar on December 12, 1990.
After completing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme in 1991, the senior advocate went into private law practice and joined the law firm of Messrs. Danladi Bamaiyi and Company in Sokoto, where he spent about 12 years and rose to become the head of chambers.
In 2003, he founded his law firm – Y. C. Maikyau & Co. – with offices in the FCT, Sokoto and Kebbi states.
He attended the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, between 2013 and 2014 where he obtained a diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, and was subsequently admitted as a fellow of the Institute (FCIArb) in September 2014.
In November 2021, he was admitted as a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (FICMC).
Credit: thenationonlineng.net
