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Recent talks about PVC in Nigeria cannot be about polyvinyl chloride, a rubber substitute for coating electric cables, but of the Permanent Voter Card that will empower enfranchised Nigerians to vote in the coming general elections, most of which will hold in 2019.
Nigerian youths, unofficially reported to be 60 per cent of Nigeria’s population, have got President Muhammadu Buhari – who is seeking an opportunity to prove that he never said they were lazy – to sign the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ Act.
Sections 65(1)(a,b), 106(b), 131(b) and 177(b) of Nigeria’s Constitution, respectively, set the age to contest for Senate from age 35; House of Representatives, 30; State Houses of Assembly, 30; President, 40; and Governor, 35.
But the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ Act, which reduces the age for both House of Representatives and State Houses of…
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