‘There Shouldn’t Be Age Limit For Presidential Candidates’ – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has diagreed with the stipulation on the minimum age for a presidential candidate as he said that age should not be a barrier for anyone to lead the country.

He argued that it was not right to stipulate minimum age for a presidential candidate without also specifying the maximum age beyond which one would no longer be able to contest.

According to him, capability and competence rather than age should be qualifications for leadership, recalling that Gen. Yakubu Gowon became military Head of State at the age of 33.

Obasanjo said this while commenting on the proposition by the Senate to reduce the age of presidential candidates from 40 to 35.

The former President featured on Sunday as the guest speaker at an exposition series tagged, “God in my life,” organised by the Touchbearer Society of the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Cathedral, Ikeja, Lagos.

Senate Agrees To 35-Years As Minimum Age For President

“Quite frankly, if we put minimum age, why are we not putting maximum age? If they put minimum age and then say that even if you are 90, you can be President, because there is no maximum age limit to being President. To me, there should be no age limit. Gen. Gowon became the Head of State at the age of 33, I became the Head of State at 39…I believe there should be no age limit; let the people decide,” Obasanjo said.

This man is directly against the youths

I don taya for dis naija!!

What a shame..

This man ehn. I hate it when he talks. Why couldnt he advice himself with these unsolicited advise he now gives when he was president. No he was busy scrambling for a third term. Now he wants to be forming activist radarada.