Lawfare Archive: African Elections and U.S. Interests
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The Nigerian Courts and the Nigerian Elections
Most presidential elections in igeria have been challenged before. Buhari did, cause he was the opposition candidate. So i would rate the chances of a turnover pretty slim. And we just saw the kenyon supreme court overturn an election and force ken to do a re run. The unfortunate part is at buhar fired the chief justice recently. Let's take that down to the state level. There were 29 state elections, not 36. In previous years, courts have overturned seven elections so there are seven off cycle elections right now. They will all happen in two weeks. If the incumbent has an advantage in elections during the regular cycle, their advantage deepens as we move to these
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