Nigeria, May 22 -- A suit has been filed to challenge the provision of the Electoral Act that bars anyone from questioning the result of an election on grounds of the winner's qualifications, including age and academic qualifications.

A lawyer, Okere Kingdom Nnmadi, filed the suit on Wednesday (20 May) at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

In the suit, yet to be assigned to a judge, the plaintiff sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the National Assembly and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) as the defendants.

"It may interest Nigerians to know that the 2026 Electoral Act has removed one of the most important sections of the Electoral Act 2022 that accords with the eligibility and qualification/disqualifi...