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[Olorogun Tsolzskinovsky @tsolzy69]

@Mz_drizle @Greybean_ Hi, I am Tsola and it's sobering enough to see that y'all is sober.

[Oghenevwogaga @KingOgba96]

The Atiku Ameachi ticket remains the only and best combination that can send Tinubu away from aso rock.

With such a competent ticket we will surely get Nigeria working again.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

When I said here last week that there were plans to use the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation to take over @NigBarAssoc if certain parties did not get their way with the upcoming #NBADecides2026, the usual folks here acted as if that was fable.

Now we have the evidence in black & white under the hand of the Attorney-General of the Federation himself, Lateef Fagbemi.

It is not to be forgotten that the #HAGF is party to the ongoing litigation before @NGCourtofAppeal. If a party to a pending case is proposing terms of settlement, those cannot be "directions." At best, they are proposals for the parties to consider.

It is notable that the #HAGF does not cite any source of legal text as authority or bases for the extraordinary whim that he has chosen to indulge in. The reason is because none can be found in existing law.

If Lateef Fagbemi wants it on his record & as his legacy he was the Attorney-General of the Federation who used his pen to ink the obituary of @NigBarAssoc, he will have a lot of willing helpers.

He wants the #NBADecides2026 to mandatorily use #NIN. But NBA does not produce the Roll. That is with @SupremeCourtNg, which does not have NIN in the records.

Lateef Fagbemi wants to appoint a #SoleAdministrator for @NigBarAssoc. But he has no such powers. The NBA is an NGO with incorporated trustees. Those are the people who have any legal role in the matters of the Association. Fagbemi is an interested party &, to be fair to him, he is not hiding whose interest he serves.

The military tried & failed to take over the #NBA or to turn it into a their plaything. This lot too shall fail.

The #NBA is not a department of the Federal Ministry of Justice.

[FESTUS OGUN @mrfestusogun]

We won’t allow Bola Tinubu to hijack the Nigerian Bar Association.

[AFAM OSIGWE @afamosigwe]

i. It is discriminatory to contend that merely because a service provider is a sole proprietor, he cannot provide services, when most legal practitioners, including members of the Committee, have sole proprietorship law offices where they continue to discharge stellar legal practice.

We are committed to due process of the law.

Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN
President

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[AFAM OSIGWE @afamosigwe]

Until the Honourable Attorney General reconvenes another meeting after the 11 June 2026 meeting to consider the report of the Sub-Committee, there cannot be any decision.

If the Sub-Committee were empowered to review the issues contained in the report, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, who is the proponent of the cases of the plaintiffs, cannot chair such a Sub-Committee as he is clearly biased and has lost any neutrality to enable a Sub-Committee chaired by him to propose a resolution to these cases. There is no way the Nigerian Bar Association would have agreed that a person who is biased over one of the parties should head any committee considering his partisan role in the entire matter. This report, which is said to have been purportedly accepted by the Honourable Attorney General, is unacceptable owing to its source.

One is reminded of the dicta in MOHAMMED v. THE NIGERIAN ARMY (2001) 1 CHR 470 at 485:

“The easily noticeable disfavour manifestly discernible from the proceedings in the court martial betrays an indecent primordial intent of conviction very much reminiscent of a sheriff in the Wild West in U.S.A. who while speaking of a horse thief said: ‘We will give him a fine trial and after that we will hang him.’ The trial should therefore be vitiated. The unnecessary prejudice and the devil-may-care attitude shown by the presiding adjudicator in the trial court martial does not augur well for the tenets and principle of fair hearing enshrined in our Constitution to reign.” (pp. 491–492)

We therefore state categorically that the purported Sub-Committee report, which contains the purported directives of the Honourable Attorney General, is beyond its remit and is biased.

We are by this press release stating categorically that:

a. The Nigerian Bar Association is an independent body not subject to the control and directive of the office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation or any other arm of government.

b. The NBA National Officers’ electoral process shall continue as scheduled by the ECNBA.

c. The Nigerian Bar Association attended the meeting convened by the Honourable Attorney General as a Co-Respondent with the aim of an amicable resolution of the lawsuit commenced by Egbe Amofin giving rise to Appeal No. CA/IB/110/2026 between Aham Ejelam, SAN & 4 Ors v. Ibrahim Lawal & 7 Ors. Suggested resolutions in a meeting seeking to resolve a dispute already before the Court can only be considered binding on the parties if all the parties accept same and cannot in any guise be termed a directive that must willy-nilly be accepted by the parties in the matter.

d. At no time was the Honourable Attorney General empowered to issue directives that are capable of truncating the democratic succession process of the NBA or even suggest a “recalibration” of the NBA Constitution.

e. We consider the report suspect as the report is not contained on the official letterhead of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation. The Nigerian Bar Association is not in receipt of any communication from the office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and cannot take it as the position of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation, who is a member of the Bar.

f. The Nigerian Bar Association, since the time that Aare Muyiwa Akinboro raised the issue of the use of NIN in the electoral process, checked the risk assessment and has come to the conclusion that any modification of the current platform configuration will truncate the election, particularly as the NIMC platform may not be able to accommodate the surge in authentication requests during the period of the election.

g. The Nigerian Bar Association is a body that has clear decision-making organs and can only subject itself to its constitutional mechanisms. The office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation is not one of them.

h. The ECNBA has not been shown to have done anything wrong in its activities since its constitution.

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[AFAM OSIGWE @afamosigwe]

ONLY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE NBA CAN DIRECT THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE 2026 NBA NATIONAL OFFICERS’ ELECTION

Our attention has been drawn to a document which purports to be a Report of a Sub-Committee and the comments of the Honourable Attorney General which, amongst other things allegedly ordered:

(a) the disbandment of the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association and postponement of the election of National Officers,

(b) the termination of the appointment of the current service provider because he is a sole proprietor and the appointment of a new service provider,

(c) the setting up of a caretaker committee to conduct the elections of national officers,

(d) the incorporation of NIN in the data of voters in the conduct of the NBA Election.

(e) the “recalibration” of the NBA Constitution to take away universal suffrage etc.

The Nigerian Bar Association believes that the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation could not issue the said directive as it is entirely unconstitutional, ultra vires the powers of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation, and an attempt to bring the Nigerian Bar Association under the control of the office of the Honourable Attorney General.

For the record, the Nigerian Bar Association is an independent body not under the control of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation. By the provisions of section 10(2) of the Legal Practitioners Act, the only time a body distinct from the Nigerian Bar Association is empowered to interfere in the activities of the Nigerian Bar Association is stated clearly therein and none of the events have occurred as to entitle the Honourable Attorney General to take the position stated in the purported directive.

We are strengthened in our belief that the Honourable Attorney General could not have given the purported directives when in fact the purported directives are no different from the reliefs sought in the two Egbe Amofin Cases pending at the High Court of Oyo State. Indeed, the Honourable Attorney General cannot grant reliefs sought in the two Egbe Amofin suits in his capacity as a convener of a mediation meeting or even as the Chief Law Officer of the Federation. The Honourable Attorney General is at best a party/mediator, and it is settled that a mediator does not give directives to the parties in a matter in which he is a party.

All Past Presidents of the Nigerian Bar Association in attendance, to the exclusion of Chief Wole Olanipekun, were of the view that the cases initiated by Egbe Amofin are frivolous and should be withdrawn. It was therefore the decision of the attendees of the meeting that the Sub-Committee set up is to ONLY liaise with the contending parties for the purpose of overseeing the withdrawal of the actions. The Sub-Committee was never empowered to make any inquest as to the conduct of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association to the extent of making far-reaching condemnations against him when he is not a candidate in the election. Their reliance on the memos submitted by some candidates as the basis for those findings violates the constitutional safeguard of fair hearing as the President was never served with those memos to enable him make a response before such condemnations were made, assuming he was a necessary person to appear before the Sub-Committee.

The resolution of the meeting of 11 June 2026 is that the Sub-Committee is to report to the entire body at a reconvened meeting. From the face of the purported report, it is clear that none of those who attended the 11 June 2026 meeting were availed a copy of the purported report or made any input to it. Assuming without conceding that they have received the report, the meeting cannot give the directions as it violates the Legal Practitioners Act and the Nigerian Bar Association Constitution.

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[Mayor Of Boki (GCFR)Ⓜ️🇳🇬 @chrispoise2]

Voting for Atiku Abubakar is a GIFT to yourself and the next generation

Nigeria needs Leadership and one Man is ready to LEAD and to SERVE

#WhoIsAtikuAbubakar

[Dee @hajaramusa17]

This is our collective fight for the soul of Nigeria. Stand with me, and let us restore the dignity of our nation.#WhoIsAtikuAbubakar

[Oghenevwogaga @KingOgba96]

Atiku is here for the old,young,weak and strong.

He's here for the Nigerian people, support him come 2027 to get Nigeria working again.

#WhoIsAtikuAbubakar

[Odogwu Akpos Makanjuola Disi @ajdc4]

The more they deny the more we dey give them evidence 😂😂😂 #Gbajagates

[Kachalla Chijioke Amanambu PhD @ChijiokeAmbh]

@tinyandagod @MayorOfNasarawa Obasanjo ensured that we suffered because he suffered by having his third term agenda die prematurely. God bless Wazirin Adamawa for making sure that Nigeria didn’t end up with a lifetime President. History will ever be kind to @atiku

[Avril_is_a_god🍀🇺🇸🇳🇬 @tinyandagod]

He didn’t put Atiku forward, ok, fine… But how is the country now? Ain’t we now ranking as one of the countries with the highest absolute numbers of people living in extreme poverty globally?

If the country were doing extremely well and you posted this, it would have made a lot of sense… But with the way things are now, it only just means Obasanjo hurt us as country and as a people by denying us such a brilliant mind…. A mind that could have set our country on the right path decades ago… And as a country we have paid and still paying dearly for it. . But we are going to get it right in 2027.
He (Atiku) will become our president!

All his beautiful ideas that Obasanjo turned down, all the policies that opposition parties and leaders have stolen from him but have not been able to properly explain or implement, he will be able to finally bring them them to life and make Nigeria and Nigerians great!

#GreatNigeriaWithAtiku
#AgreatNigeriaIsGuaranteedwithAtiku
#AtikuAmaechi2027

It is Atiku O’clock sis, get with the program!!! Let’s save our country. . You know I heart you…

😁
🙏

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
One heart for each letter in ‘Atiku’…. 😂

[Mindset🗝️ @Mindset_Post]

The signage to the PIFPC agency is still mounted at the federal secretariat, yet this government is now trying to deny its involvement in this scandal

[Abba Bashe @bashe_abba]

Competence, dedication, and tireless service — the qualities Nigeria needs in leadership. A contender ready to work for the people and build a stronger future for our nation 🇳🇬

[Abba Bashe @bashe_abba]

Atiku Abubakar is the answer for a better Nigeria 🇳🇬 — leadership, experience, and a vision for progress. Together, let’s build the future we deserve. #AA2027

[OBIANUJUAKU @HRH_Ujuaku]

His only “crime” was choosing Nigeria and saying no to that man’s third term ambition. Yet the very people he tried to protect continue to believe Obasanjo’s lies against Atiku.
Personally, I would have preferred that Waziri stayed out of this election altogether, because those he is trying to save clearly do not want to be saved.
How much must you hate your former vice president—the man who headed your economic team that you felt the need to vilify him so viciously in your book?
Ota Hit*er

[Sopriala Membere🇻🇦⚓ @SoprialaMembere]

More revelations are going to be made in the coming days and weeks.

Una never see anything...

Thieves and common criminals!!!

[Odogwu Akpos Makanjuola Disi @ajdc4]

@oMoTonsore He has entered America more times than BAT since 1999 till date… has America told you they have a pending case with AA🤷🏽‍♂️…. If you have a case or any evidence against sue him na😂😂… go worry about #gbajagates

[Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi Fan Base 2 @TeamAmaechi]

We are prospecting a great future for our youths, a situation were they will be trained to become pilots, engineers, lawyers etc and not akara or kulikuli sellers #ATIKU2027 Arise & Shine 9ja

[Dec @UcheDec_]

Voting Atiku in 2027 is Nigerians most significant patriotic mission

#AA2027