Breaking: Buhari Signs Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill

President Muhammadu Buhari today signed the Not-Too-Young-To-Run bill into law.

The President assented to the bill at an ongoing ceremony in the Council Chambers, Aso Villa, Abuja.

The official Twitter handle of the Federal Government, @AsoRock, also tweeted a short video of the ceremony.

The president, in a jocular mood, ‘appealed’ to young people to defer their presidential ambitions till after the 2019 general elections.

He also noted that the new bill did not tamper with the age qualifications for governor and the senate, which remained at 35.

He congratulated the young people and urged them to be more enterprising and self-sustaining.

Buhari had, during his May 29 Democracy Day broadcast, promised to sign the bill into law.

The bill was passed by the National Assembly last year to alter Sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the Constitution to reduce 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.

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