Most Nigerian elections have ended up in legal tussles since the country emerged from military rule in 1999, but the Supreme Court has never overturned a presidential election.
ABUJA - Nigeria's Supreme Court on Thursday was set to rule on the opposition's challenges to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's election victory in their last legal appeal against his mandate.
A former Lagos governor, Tinubu won 37 percent of the vote in February, beating Peoples Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party's Peter Obi, in one of the tightest votes in Nigeria's modern history."We are hopeful that the apex court will affirm the sanctity of the 8.9m votes of Nigerians that gave President Tinubu victory last February," Bayo Onanuga, one of Tinubu's special media advisors, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Along with its original claims, Atiku's legal team had also sought to introduce new evidence it claims shows Tinubu submitted a forged certificate from the Chicago State University as a qualification to the election commission when he applied to run for president. After February's election, INEC acknowledged "glitches" in the voting process, but dismissed claims it had not been free and fair.
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