I was present at the NEC meeting where the allegations made on Facebook by one Ucheoma Chisorom Nwogu are now being loosely hung, and I feel compelled to set the record straight.
At no point during the meeting did the NBA President state, imply, or suggest that he was supporting any candidate, nor did he say he had “vowed not to be neutral.”
Nothing even remotely close to that occurred. Those claims are simply not grounded in what actually transpired at NEC.
It is also important to state an obvious but necessary fact: Ucheoma Chisorom Nwogu is not a member of NEC. By reason of that alone, she could not have attended the meeting, neither physically nor virtually.
Any suggestion that she is speaking from personal knowledge of what was said or done at NEC is therefore inaccurate. Her commentary is, at best, second-hand speculation.
What makes her intervention even more revealing is the wider context. Her post did not read like a neutral concern about process or institutional integrity; it read like a partisan interpretation designed to fit a pre-existing narrative.
This is consistent with her well-documented support for Aare Olumuyiwa Akinboro, SAN, whom she has repeatedly praised, promoted, and defended across various platforms.
There is nothing wrong with backing a candidate. The problem arises when that support is advanced by attributing words and intentions to the NBA President that were never expressed, and by portraying neutrality as an “affliction” rather than what it actually is, an obligation of office.
For those of us who were actually present at NEC, the attempt to recast that meeting as evidence of interference is both misleading and unfair.
The Bar deserves discussions grounded in facts and firsthand accounts, not narratives built from the outside and dressed up as insider knowledge.
Hamza Garba Umaru, Chairman NBA Dutse Branch
Member of NEC, 2024 – 2026
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