Legal Dilemmas

By Ayuk Kure It will be remembered that in July 2017, Honourable Tony Chinedu Nwulu of the House of Representatives and Senator Abdul-Aziz Murtala Nyako of the Senate sponsored a bill in their respective legislative chambers for an Act to amend the provisions of sections 65, 106, 131 and 177 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. The bill which is otherwise known as the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ bill was immediately passed by the National Assembly in the same month and in compliance with Section 9(2) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended was forwarded to the States’ Houses of Assembly for approval before the Presidential assent. The bill seeks to reduce the age requirement for the office of the President from 40 to 30 years; Governor and Senate from 35 to 30 years and the House of Representatives and House of Assembly from 30 to 25 years.  To ensure the speedy passage of the bill by at least two-third majority of the States’ Houses of As