Nigeria’s Supreme Court refuses to void president’s election

Nigeria’s Supreme Court refused to void President Bola Tinubu’s election (Lewis Joly/AP)

Nigeria’s Supreme Court has refused to void the recent election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the political opposition’s challenges, which argued that the vote was flawed and that Mr Tinubu was not qualified to seek or hold the presidency.

The court held in a majority ruling that the grounds of the challenges were “devoid of merits”, ending a dispute that had put Africa’s most populous country on the edge after the February election. An appeals court in Nigeria also rejected the petitions last month.