Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya (SAN), the sole female candidate in the three-horse race for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidency, maintained a strong lead as of 9:20 p.m.. on Saturday.
According to data from the live voters’ dashboard for the 2026 national elections, Badejo-Okusanya commands the race with 11,206 votes, representing 46.62% of the total ballots cast in the presidential category.
Her closest rival, Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe (SAN), follows with 7,335 votes (30.51%), while Aare Olumuyiwa Akinboro (SAN) trails in third place with 5,498 votes (22.87%).
Total number of registered voters stood at 82164, out of which 24,112 voted so far, being (29:35%) turn out
Results earlier released as at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday showed that 21,665 lawyers out of 82,164 registered voters had cast their ballots, representing a 26.37 per cent turnout.
By then, Badejo-Okusanya polled 9,930 votes (45.82 per cent) to maintain a comfortable lead;over others, with Akangbe securing 6,708 votes (30.99 per cent) and Akinboro having 5,021 votes (23.21 per cent).
It was learnt that the actual polling, planned to begin in the early hours of July 18 was delayed by a cyber attack on the association’s electronic voting platform.
That the process was threatened was confirmed by the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), which announced an indefinite delay in the commencement of voting following what it described as a coordinated cyberattack on its electronic voting platform.
The ECNBA had claimed that external actors targeted the platform in what seemed an attempt to compromise the integrity of the process.
In a statement, ECNBA 2026’s Chair, Aham Ejelam (SAN) and Secretary, Ibrahim Aliyu Nassarawa, said the platform came under a “deliberate, coordinated and sustained cyberattack” aimed at disrupting, sabotaging and undermining the election.
The ECNBA added its cybersecurity team and Election Voting Service Provider, EVSP, immediately activated emergency security protocols to contain the threat and restore full functionality of the system.
It promised members that no votes were accepted during the disruption and that voting only commenced after the platform had been secured.
The committee said despite the disruption, the election remained under its supervision, while candidates, agents and observers continued monitoring the process from the designated election centre.
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