The senate has adopted the
conference committee reports on the “Not too young to run” bill and 11 others.
The bills were adopted during
plenary on Tuesday, following resolutions from state houses of assembly and
sent for presidential assent.
Other bills are financial
autonomy of state legislature, restriction of tenure of president and
governors, timeline for the presentation of presentation of appropriation bill,
determination of pre-election matters, submission from the judiciary, the
Nigeria police force, political parties and electoral matters, authorisation of
expenditure in absence of appropriation; the legislature, political parties and
electoral matters.
In all, there are 33 bills
seeking to alter various provisions of the constitution.
The senate had approved 29 of the
bills while the house of representatives approved 21 of them. Seventeen of them
were passed by the two chambers without differences and subsequently
transmitted to the state houses of assembly for resolution.
The resolutions of the houses of
assembly were then committed to a conference committee of both chambers for
resolution and passage.
The not too young to run bill
seeks to reduce the minimum age requirement for elective positions in the
country.
It was first passed by the senate
and the house of representatives in July 2017.
The bill seeks to reduce the age
qualification for the office of the president from 40 years to 30 years; age
for the office of a state governor from 35 to 30; senate from 35 to 30; house
of representatives, from 30 to 25; and state house of assembly, from 30 to 25.
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