NBA to proceed with Saturday's election, says SSS has released detained service provider's MD

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday said its national election will be held on Saturday as scheduled.

It said this in a statement announcing the release of the managing director of the association’s election service provider by the State Security Service (SSS).

The NBA did not disclose the names of the service provider’s managing director and his company in the statement shared via its official X account on Thursday night.

It only confirmed that the official had been detained and later released.

The association said the decision to proceed with the election as scheduled followed an emergency virtual meeting of the NBA’s National Executive Council (NEC) affirming that there was no operational or logistical reason to postpone the election, now two days away.