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NBA Set To Honour Osinbajo, Aturu With Integrity Award

The Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch will on Thursday
honour the vice presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo(SAN), as the
recipient of its second edition of Gani Fawehinmi Integrity
Award.
Also to be honoured with the same award post-humously is
the late human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu.
The two men, according to the NBA, were chosen “after a
vigorous and painstaking search” as men who exemplified
Fawehinmi’s guiding principles while alive.
Fawehimmi, a rights lawyer, died on September 5, 2009.
The NBA said the award was inaugurated two years ago in
recognition of what Fawehinmi stood for.
“We know what Gani stood for all his life. He hated
corruption with a passion. He was all for the uplift of the
standard of living of the Nigerian poor masses.
“This award is given to men and women of very high
integrity in a society where such people are few and far
between,” the NBA told journalists in Lagos on Wednesday.
Osinbajo and Aturu will be honoured during the 11th Gani
Fawehinmi annual lecture/symposium and second NBA Ikeja
Gani Fawehimi Integrity Award slated for Thursday.
The lecture for this year, the NBA said, is with the theme:
“Ethnicity, Religion, Illiteracy: Promises and Illusions of
Democracy in the struggle to uplift the masses from
impoverishment.”
The event will hold at the Airport Hotel, Ikeja and it would
be chaired by Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie.
The speakers are Dr. Alex Otti and Dr. Zaid Timehin while
Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) will publicly present a book, “Stand
up for what is right” titled after Fawehinmi’s popular slogan.
In a related development, legal practitioners in the country,
under the aegis of Lawyers4Change, took to the streets of
Lagos on Wednesday in what was tagged ‘Walk for Change.”
The exercise was to sensitise Lagosians on the need to go
and collect their Permanent Voter Cards at the office of the
independent National Electoral Commission in preparation
for the February general elections.
The lawyers, while walking through Oba Akinjobi way, Oba
Akran road, Obafemi Awolowo way, Allen Avenue, Toyin
street, Olowu street, all in the Ikeja area of Lagos State also
urged Lagosians to vote for the APC presidential candidate,
Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate
Osinbajo.
The National Coordinator of Lawyers4Change, Mr. Adesina
Ogunlana, while addressing the crowd at Obafemi Awolowo
junction and Alade market, said Buhari and Osinbajo would
bring integrity into governance of the country if elected on
February 14.

According to Ogunlana the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket represented “honour, integrity, hardwork and the
entrenchment of the rule of law in the country.”
Also speaking, the National Coordinator, Voters Awareness
Initiative, Mr. Wale Ogunade, assured the Hausa community
at Alade Market that electing Buhari and Osinbajo would
guarantee them an enabling environment to do their
business.

The Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch will on Thursday honour the vice presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo(SAN), as the recipient of its second edition of Gani Fawehinmi Integrity
Award.

Firefire:
[s]The two men, according to the NBA, were chosen “after a vigorous and painstaking search” as men who exemplified Fawehinmi’s guiding principles while alive.




Congrats to them, but this is purely a political award, I have no evidence or any similarity in this people with our own human rights fighter, Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memories.[/s]

Mogidi:
[s]Exactly a month to the general election Osinbanjo is being awarded an unmerited award by an association that has long lost its lustre. Political award of no significance, there's no longer a non partisan association left in Nigeria.[/s]

Mogidi:
[s]Exactly a month to the general election Osinbanjo is being awarded an unmerited award by an association that has long lost its lustre. Political award of no significance, there's no longer a non partisan association left in Nigeria.

Mogidi:
Exactly a month to the general election Osinbanjo is being awarded an unmerited award by an association that has long lost its lustre. Political award of no significance, there's no longer a non partisan association left in Nigeria.

eliment:
An award well deserved