Osinbajo, Aturu Bag Integrity Award.
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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.
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