The Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch will on Thursday honour the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo(SAN), as the recipient of its second edition of Gani Fawehinmi Integrity Award.

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.