Jos NBA denies endorsing guber candidate

The branch chairman, Barrister Ledak Dazuk Dafer, said publications in some national dailies to the effect that the branch had adopted Hon Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its governorship candidate was untrue.“We categorically state that the Jos Bar, being a branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, a foremost professional, non-political body, […]

The branch chairman, Barrister Ledak Dazuk Dafer, said publications in some national dailies to the effect that the branch had adopted Hon Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its governorship candidate was untrue.
“We categorically state that the Jos Bar, being a branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, a foremost professional, non-political body, has not adopted and will never adopt or endorse any particular candidate for any political elective position,” Dafer asserted.
Dafer added: “The publications which tend to show that we have endorsed a particular candidate is misleading and is likely to have the effect of rubbishing the efforts of the branch in carrying out voter education and mobilisation workshops and rallies to sensitise the general public to come out en masse and vote candidates of their choice which was exclusively carried out at great financial expense of its members.”