The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the country's main professional body for lawyers, has concluded its 2026 national officers' election amid widespread complaints that eligible voters were prevented from participating due to technical failures in the electronic voting system. Many lawyers, including Senior Advocate Monday Ubani and one of the runner-up candidates, Lateef Akangbe, reported being unable to receive the one-time passwords required to cast their votes, with the platform at times becoming entirely unreachable. Despite the controversy, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya was declared the winner with 12,317 votes, becoming the first woman elected NBA president, and Ubani has called on her incoming leadership to commission a full post-election audit and pursue electoral reforms, drawing a parallel with late Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua's acknowledged that the 2007 election that brought him to power was flawed.