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Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the April 2007 election of President Umaru Yar'Adua, dismissing an appeal by two opposition candidates that the vote be annulled on grounds of irregularities, the chief justice said.
"The appeal is hereby dismissed and accordingly Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Jonathan Goodluck are president and vice-president of the Republic of Nigeria," Idris Kutigi told the court.
"I am not saying all is well with the conduct of the election but there is no evidence to dislodge the entire results," he said.
Two opposition candidates -- former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Mohammadu Buhari, a former military ruler -- had asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that upheld Yar'Adua's victory in the much-criticized April 2007 vote.
Yar'Adua had vowed to quit if the court ruled against him.
Virtually all groups -- Nigerian and foreign -- that monitored the 2007 poll criticized it for large-scale fraud.
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Nigerian President Umaru Yar-Adua.
AFP
