Yes! It is no longer news that after much ado in ensuring the nullity of the “Not too young to Run Bill”, the Bill finally got enacted into Law. But there is need for a thorough cogitation and reconsideration of this Law. Before this era which we are, Nigeria’s Heads of States were privileged well enough to assume political offices in their early 20s, though there were cases where extreme coercion was applied. Also, Historical facts has it that the incumbent President of Nigeria in the person of Mohammadu Buhari, ventured into politics in his 20s via the military.
E. M. Foster, the great English Novelist and Cultural Critic once said that; ‘fools rush in where Angels fear to tread’. Politics is such a sphere where one should tread’carefully. Personally speaking, in Biology, in Civic Education, and in Legal Luminary, A human being or a person or an individual is considered an adult once that being or person or individual reaches the age of 18 and above. What stops the Nigeria’s Legislature from amending that Bill further? (ie reducing the expected age to balance the 18 years Adulthood Philosophy). Don’t we have cases where there are countable younger youths that are currently occupying one or two political offices in the world?
Without hovering around in this case, there is nothing to rejoice about. That Bill ought to be revisited and amended. Why can’t they bring the age down so that we’d have an equilibrium just as it in most civilized societies in the world? How old was the incumbent President of Nigeria when he ventured into politics? Let the youth in Nigeria think critically about this disequilibrium, this injustice, this anomaly. Whether we like it or not, the youths of Nigeria if everly given the chance to run any election, there’d be old godfathers that would be dictating and controlling the youths that emerges candidates.
In conclusion, with the passage of this Bill, believe you me, the Senate will now be a kind of hereditary business where the Senators would be replaced by their own Oxford and Cambridge educated Sons and Daughters. The ordinary Nigerian young youths has no money to spread around even if the electioneering forms are issued free by the political parties. Thanks to #naijapidgin #untalented #nigeria #curie #backtoschool #steemarena #philosophy #i-rise #ulog #life #art #stach #politics for perusing my Philosophical Aphorisms concerning the status quo of Nigeria.
