It is Egbe Amofin’s turn to produce the next NBA President. Prominent members of Egbe have indicated interest to run the association’s affairs. The candidates are Funke Adekoya (SAN), Dele Adesina (SAN), Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN), Augustin Alegeh (SAN) and the incumbent First Vice-President of the NBA, Osas J. Erhabor.
In 2008, when it was the turn of Egbe to produce a president for the NBA, two aspirants Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) and Mr. Dele Adesina (SAN) showed interest. Three meetings were reportedly held at the instance of Chief Olanipekun at his office at No. 94 Norman Williams, South West Ikoyi, Lagos and both aspirants attended this meetings with delegates drawn from their supporters.
At each meeting, the house recognised that both Adesina and Akeredolu were eminently qualified to contest the office and that both of them could be Presidents of the NBA but at the same time rather one after the other.
Consequently, pressure was mounted on Mr. Adesina to allow Mr. Akeredolu to run and Adesina would wait till this year. At a meeting held on April 19, 2008, and hosted by Chief Olanipekun (SAN) at his country home in Ikere Ekiti, Oba Abolade of Oke-Ila, a respected traditional ruler and a lawyer was in attendance at this meeting.
He appealed to Mr. Adesina to wait for the next time around, insisting that it is unreasonable and unnecessary for the Egbe to dissipate resources and energy when we can understandably agree that one person could go then and the other later.
Chief Bandele Aiku and Olanipekun co-presided over the meeting and at the end of the day, Mr. Adesina stepped down from the race in due deference to the request of the elders and the generality of the people at the meeting, although contrary to the wishes and desire of majority of his supporter, particularly those from outside the Southwest.
It is believed that Adesina was promised adoption in the current dispensation, but other contestants in the forthcoming election have made it clear that adoption or not, they were prepared to run the race to an end.
The Egbe Amofin is the Yoruba Lawyers Forum.
In 2008, when it was the turn of Egbe to produce a president for the NBA, two aspirants Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) and Mr. Dele Adesina (SAN) showed interest. Three meetings were reportedly held at the instance of Chief Olanipekun at his office at No. 94 Norman Williams, South West Ikoyi, Lagos and both aspirants attended this meetings with delegates drawn from their supporters.
At each meeting, the house recognised that both Adesina and Akeredolu were eminently qualified to contest the office and that both of them could be Presidents of the NBA but at the same time rather one after the other.
Consequently, pressure was mounted on Mr. Adesina to allow Mr. Akeredolu to run and Adesina would wait till this year. At a meeting held on April 19, 2008, and hosted by Chief Olanipekun (SAN) at his country home in Ikere Ekiti, Oba Abolade of Oke-Ila, a respected traditional ruler and a lawyer was in attendance at this meeting.
He appealed to Mr. Adesina to wait for the next time around, insisting that it is unreasonable and unnecessary for the Egbe to dissipate resources and energy when we can understandably agree that one person could go then and the other later.
Chief Bandele Aiku and Olanipekun co-presided over the meeting and at the end of the day, Mr. Adesina stepped down from the race in due deference to the request of the elders and the generality of the people at the meeting, although contrary to the wishes and desire of majority of his supporter, particularly those from outside the Southwest.
It is believed that Adesina was promised adoption in the current dispensation, but other contestants in the forthcoming election have made it clear that adoption or not, they were prepared to run the race to an end.
The Egbe Amofin is the Yoruba Lawyers Forum.
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