The following press release was distributed via wire this morning:

London, August 5, 2011 — International law firm Amsterdam & Peroff LLP has been retained to assist the legal team of Mallam Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, a popular Nigerian politician, in an alleged case of massive electoral fraud in the gubernatorial elections of the state of Bauchi, Nigeria, in April 2011.

According to election observers working with the opposition party Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the incumbent governor of Bauchi state won re-election thanks only to a forced military curfew and fraudulent, massive, brazen and blatant thumb printing of ballot papers by agents believed to be in the employment of the incumbent Governor.  Working alongside Tuggar’s highly regarded Nigerian legal counsel, Amsterdam & Peroff LLP intends to explore international legal options to seek redress while raising international awareness of cases of electoral fraud in Nigeria.