TheCable

Muhammad Adamu Oyanki, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared the winner of the election for Doma north state constituency in Nasarawa.

The 26-year-old polled 11,677 votes to defeat Mustafa Yahaya Idris of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who received 9,520 votes.

He is among the youngest lawmaker-elects in the March 18 state houses of assembly elections.

TheCable had reported how Rukayat Shittu, candidate of the APC, won the Owode/Onire state constituency in Kwara.

Shittu secured 7,521 votes to fend off Abdullah Magaji of the PDP who got 6,957 votes.

Before May 2018, the 1999 constitution pegged the minimum age requirement for those seeking to be president at 40 years, 35 for governor and senator, and 30 for the house of representatives and state house of assembly.

Ahead of the 2019 elections, there were conversations — spearheaded by Yiaga Africa — that the age requirements stipulated in the constitution shut the door on a large number of youths who constitute the majority of the country’s population.

In May 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the age reduction bill into law.

The law reduced the age qualification for the office of the president from 40 to 30 years; the age for the office of a state governor from 35 to 30; the senate from 35 to 30; the house of representatives, from 30 to 25; and state house of assembly, from 30 to 25.