Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari’s candidate for the International Criminal Court, Ishaq Bello, has lost his bid to be elected as a judge at the war crimes tribunal.
Mr. Bello, head of the High Court of Federal Capital in Abuja fell below the pecking order at the polls after amassing a dismal 12 votes out 117 valid ballots in the first round of voting, and five out of 110 valid ballots in the second round.
The Nigerian candidate scored the second lowest votes out of 18 nominees who participated in the race for the next ICC jurists, results released Thursday by the Netherlands-based court showed.
