President Muhammadu
Buhari on Thursday signed the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill into law.
Buhari signed the bill
into law at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, barely two
days after he promised to do so.
The law reduces the age
qualification for president from 40 to 30; governor from 35 to 30; senator from
35 to 30; House of Representatives membership from 30 to 25 and State House of
Assembly membership from 30 to 25.
In his Democracy Day address
on Tuesday, the President had promised to sign the bill into law “in a few
days’ time.”
The National Assembly had
passed the bill last year, altering sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the
Constitution to reduce the constitutional age requisition for president from 40
to 30; that of the governor from 35 to 30; senator from 35 to 30; House of
Representatives membership from 30 to 25 and State House of Assembly membership
from 30 to 25.
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