CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA 1999 (FOURTH ALTERATION) ACT, NO. 27 (REDUCTION IN AGE QUALIFICATION FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF A STATE – aka NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN ACT)

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CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, 1999 (FOURTH ALTERATION) ACT, NO. 27, 2017 (REDUCTION IN AGE QUALIFICATION FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF A STATE)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

 This Act alters the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to reduce the age qualification for the Office of the President and membership of the House of Representatives and the State House of Assembly.

CONSTITUTION OF THE FEEDRAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, 1999 (FOURTH ALTERATION, NO. 27) ACT, 2017

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Alteration of the Constitution, 1999

2.       Alteration of section 65

3.       Alteration of section 106

4.       Alteration of section 131

5.       Citation

CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, 1999 (FOURTH ALTERATION NO. 27) ACT 2017

An Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to reduce the age for qualification for the Office of the President, membership of the House of Representatives and the State House of Assembly; and for related matters.

ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria –

1.       The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (in this Act referred  “the Principal Act”) is altered as set out in this Act.

 2.      Section 65(1)(b) of the Principal Act is altered by substituting for the word, “thirty”, in line 2, the word “twenty-five”.

3.       Section 106(b) of the Principal Act is altered  by substituting for the word, “Thirty”, the words, “Twenty-five”.

 4.      Section 131 (b) of the Principal Act is altered by substituting for the word, “forty”, the words, “thirty-five”.

5.       This Act may be cited as Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fourth Alteration, No. 27) Act, 2017.

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