Challenge to Yar’Adua election dismissed
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has rejected the final challenge to last year’s election of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Opposition leaders had asked the court to annul the election, saying there had had been widespread violence and fraud.
Local and foreign poll observers condemned the elections in April last year as flawed.
But the Supreme Court has upheld the findings of lower courts that lawyers had not provided strong enough evidence to overturn the official result.