However, the template of voting does not permit voters to choose offices to vote for as everyone is forced to vote for disqualified candidates before getting to the page of the ASSISTANT SECRETARY. The unopposed candidates are set to be sworn in any moment from now. It is interesting to see that a few cabal in NBA Abuja have decided to set the entire branch on a collision course with the NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION. This act of brazen divisive plunging of a Branch of a Professional Association must be treated as the highest level of Professional misconduct and all the members of the Electoral Committee must face disciplinary actions. We call on the National Executive Committee of the NBA to suspend all members who identify with the illegality of the Electoral Committee by being sworn in along illegal participants. Article 7 (h) of the NBA CONSTITUTION provides as follows: “Generally exercise all the powers vested in the Association (except those powers reserved for an Annual General Meeting or Extraordinary General Meetings of the Association) so as to promote and carry out the aims and objects of the Association as contained in this Constitution, and in particular, when the need arises, to apply for and receive donations on behalf of the Association.” With respect to the powers of the National Executive Committee of the NBA. Therefore, the NEC can and did rightly intervened to forestall unnecessary crisis in the election of NBA ABUJA BRANCH. Same NEC decision was used as justification by the Abuja Electoral Committee to initially disqualify the now unopposed candidate and the Electoral Committee made so much noise in defence of the directive from the National Elections Monitoring Committee. However, now that their illegal decision is upturned, they have embarked on all kinds of insults and disrespect for the NEC empowered body. Note that the entire process is hinged on a voters register that is not authenticated and contain names of people who are not qualified to vote. Many qualified voters were deliberately removed from the list.]]>