THE President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Yakubu Maikyau, has called on legal practitioners to work towards an improvement of the democratic process in the country through an amendment of the present constitution and seek to provide for independent candidates. The NBA president made the call on Sunday during the 19th annual Gani Fawehinmi Lecture organised by the NBA Ikeja Branch in Lagos. Maikyau at the lecture themed, ‘A free fair and credible election: An indispensable tool for national development,’ explained that the present process through which political candidates emerge at the primaries commits fraud against citizens as it