About 16 states of the federation have so far passed the not too young to run bill to give legal backing to agitations to reduce the age of eligibility to contest for political offices in the country.
The group also said that data from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) indicate that about 52 percent of registered voters are young Nigerians between the ages of 18 to 35, pointing out that they will mobilize more young people across the country to participate in the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise.
While only eight states are needed to attain the mandatory two third pass it, there was the need for the remaining states that were yet to pass the bill to do so without delay.
The Not Too Young To Run movement is a movement of youth and civil society groups advocating for the reduction of age for running for elective offices to mainstream young men and women in electoral politics. Not Too Young To Run is Nigeria’s largest and most successful youth movement in recent times.
The movement is driven by the compelling need to restructure the country’s political system to address the deeply entrenched system of political exclusion and institute inclusive politics, transformative leadership and electoral competitiveness in the electoral process.
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