BUHARI SIGNS ‘NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN’ BILL

Penpushing reports that Buhari, however, said in the bill presented to him for assent, there was no reduction in the age requirement for the office of senators and governors, indicating that age would still be left at 35.

Similarly, the lawmakers also approved independent candidature in the new law. It was part of a wider constitutional amendment process which the National Assembly carried out last year.

Since its passage in July 2017 by the National Assembly, about 25 states, representing more than two-thirds of the country’s 36 states, had adopted the bill as at March ending. It was the outcome of relentless efforts by a coalition of more than 40 youth-based initiatives across the country.