Nigeria Court Dismisses Opposition’s Application to Overturn President’s Victory

Nigeria’s appeal’s court has ruled that Nigeria’s main opposition parties failed to prove claims of electoral malpractice against governing All Progressives Congress in February’s disputed elections.

The challenges came after one of the country’s most tightly fought elections, in which former Lagos governor Tinubu won 37 percent of the vote, beating Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party to secure the presidency of Africa’s most populous nation.

Abubakar and Obi had asked the court to invalidate the election, alleging irregularities.

Judges rejected all claims made by Labour Party candidate Obi, including fraud, charges electoral authorities broke the law and allegations Tinubu was ineligible to run.