Nigeria: Presidential Election Upheld

The Supreme Court upheld the election of President Umaru Yar’Adua, left, on Friday after more than a year and a half of legal battles and allegations of fraud by two opposition leaders. The court ruled 4 to 3 that the prosecution had not presented sufficient evidence to overturn the election. “The president and vice president remain the president and vice president of this country,” Justice Niki Tobi said in a statement. Local and international observers condemned the April 2007 elections as...