Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is conspicuously absent at the ongoing 62nd Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) conference.
While he was represented by his running mate, Kashim Shettima, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) attended the event.
The 2022 NBA AGM is themed, “BOLD Transitions” and its General Conference is expected to hold between August 19 and 26, 2022 with the opening ceremony happening in Lagos.
The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dumebi Kachikwu, and that of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, were also among the discussants.
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The 62nd NBA conference officially opened on 19 August and will continue till 26 August.
In his welcome address, Olumide Akpata, the NBA President, said the association hopes to stage a world-class conference with an in-depth discourse on critical issues affecting the legal profession and the country in general.
“All around us are instances of transition in the different spheres of our national lives from the NBA where a newly elected President and Executive Committee members are scheduled to take up the reins of power to the national level where activities are on top gear for the 2023 general elections that will birth a democratic transition from one democratically elected President to another, for the fifth time in the 4th Republic,” said Mr Akpata