Buhari congratulates new NBA president

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Olumide Akpata on his election as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), wishing him every success in the new position of leading Nigerian lawyers to chart a path of professional development and fulfilment. 

As a lawyer of over two decades who has held several strategic positions in the legal association, the President said that Akpata’s vast knowledge and experience in litigation, corporate world and engaging with government at different levels, will greatly benefit the Bar and indeed all Nigerians.

Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, yesterday, assured the new leadership of NBA of the continued cooperation of his administration in addressing the broad range of challenges and opportunities facing the legal profession and the country.