Nyesom Wike, Rivers state
governor, has urged Nigerians to prevail on the national assembly to override
President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the 2010 electoral act amendment bill
He said the bill will guarantee a
free, fair and credible electoral system.
The governor made the call on
Thursday while declaring open the 2018 annual Nigeria Bar Association (NBA)
section on Legal Practice Conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital.
He appealed to the Nigerian legal
practitioners to rise up and insist on the relevance of the amended Electoral
Act 2010.
“Let me remind us that a defining
feature of the legal profession is the commitment to promote both the
substantive rules and the processes of the law, as well as to defend the
democratic values of our society,” Wike said.
He called on the lawyers to
constantly reinvent and reposition themselves in response to existing and new
challenges both in the theory and practice of the law.
The governor said legal
practitioners should think of ways of remaining relevant in the legal practice
in a bid to meet the demands of their clients and society in the most
professional, diligent and efficient manner.
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