Nigeria, April 13 -- Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for the strengthening of the nation's electoral laws in a way that only the ballot paper, and not the courts, is allowed to determine the winners of elections.

The former President stressed that the standard practice is that the electoral management bodies exercise the sole responsibility of returning candidates and declaring winners while the judiciary complements by either upholding declared results or nullifying flawed elections and ordering a rerun.

The former president stated this on Monday in an interaction with reporters during a visit to TOSTV Network studios in Abuja.

He said: "I had already made a public statement on that to the effect that the ballot paper an...