Unity Bar Elections Screening Exercise: Eze Files Petition As Electoral Committee Releases Results
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abuja branch (Unity Bar) has released the results of its screening exercise held on Monday the 9th of May, 2022.
Out of eighteen (18) contestants, who presented themselves for screening, sixteen were cleared while two, Ajuluchukwu Eze, Esq. and Adama MOHAMMED, Mrs were not cleared.
The notice of the screening results which was made available to The Metro Lawyer (TML) news desk and signed by the Electoral Committee Chairman, Olatunji Salawu and Secretary, Tony Idoko stated the reason for Ajuluchukwu Eze’s non clearance as “Two (2) nominators not qualified to run for the Office”, while the reason for Adama MOHAMMED’s non-clearance was given as “No satisfactory evidence of payment of BPF for 2020 and 2021″.
See the results of the screening exercise below.
Following the stipulation of S. 14 (3) of the Uniform Bye laws for branches, which states that an aspirant has a seven days’ window within which to appeal, Ajuluchukwu Eze, Esq has appealed his non clearance vide a petition to the Branch Elections Petitions Committee, contesting his non-clearance.
See Petition below…
A statement by Eze in one of the Unity Bar social media platforms reads …
Dear Learned SANs, Seniors, Colleagues and Friends, good morning.
Yesterday I presented myself for Screening by the Electoral Committee of our branch.
I and my nominators met the requirements of the Bye laws to contest and to nominate, however the committee insisted that my nominators being from the north are not qualified to run for the election and hence I will not be cleared.
I protested, but true to their words, this morning a list of cleared candidates was released and my name was marked not cleared. I do not agree with this position and have subsequently submitted a petition to the Branch Elections Petitions Committee on the grounds that our bye laws did not state that nominators must come from the same zone as the candidates and the committee did not expressly state this much in their notice of electoral guidelines.
I remain in high spirit and urge all my supporters to continue in full mast with our campaigns while we await the decision of the Appeal committee.
Ajuluchukwu Eze
