On May 31, 2018, Muhammadu Buhari signed the Not Too Young To Run bill into law.

The signing into law, the popular #NotTooYoungToRun bill was greeted with wide excitement and jubilation across the country. Many people concluded that the country was finally heading towards the right direction and that it is a welcome development that the youths, who form over 60% of the nation's population, were going to be seen at the corridors of powers in subsequent political events.

The president Muhammadu Buhari's government had initially dragged its feet as regard the bill and was literally forced to sign it into law due to the popularity of the bill and the consequent negative effect it would have had for the party, had it not been signed.

Little did we know that what they, the APC, could not achieve in terms of frustrating youths out of politics by initially refusing to sign the bill to law will as a matter of fact be achieved somewhere else.

The All Progressive Congress, APC's Presidential Nomination form goes for N50 million, the Expression of Interest Form costs N5 million.

For the APC governorship ticket, the party reviewed the nomination forms from N5.5 million to N22.5 million, senatorial ticket from N3.3 million to N8.5 million, House of Representatives from N2.2 million to N6.5 million and state House of Assembly from N550, 000 to N1.1 million.

The devil's gift
Nigeria's poverty level is on the rise as the nation has overtaken Indian as the world's capital of poverty. Nigeria has almost 90 million people living below $1/day. Extreme poverty in Nigeria is growing by six people every minute.

Now, over 60% of Nigeria's population is made up of youths and over 80 million Nigerians living in "extreme poverty"; that is, below $1 a day. And only about 5% of Nigeria's population owning about N500,000 and above.

What this means is that, it is still the 5% who actually own N500,000 above that can afford to aspire for political positions and stand for elections.

If presidential form is N55 million and the least form goes for N1.1 million, it means that, more than half of the population that makes up the 5% of people living with N500,000 can not afford to stand elections in Nigeria.

The Rhetorics
You have a youthful population (60%)

80 million of your entire population lives below N300 a

Every minute, six people fall into the " extremely poor" mark


And the minimum price for your form is more than a million naira.


Yet you want the people to jubilate that you have done them good by signing Not Too Young To Run Bill into Law.

Who then can afford it if not for the same class of people ruling?

It should have been NOT TOO POOR TO RUN! Because our poverty index is directly opposite of the cost of forms for political participation in Nigeria.

Steven Endurance,
Convener,
The Oloye Presidential Movement
Email: Oloyemovement@gmail

True talk brother

Wat do u xpet 4rm apc wen dy have a walking dead as Der leader nd sum zomby youths are following hm

how do you sell the form for a post for 55m when the basic salary is #1.7m per month, you already reserve the ppost higher than the reach of most career people who never stole government money before.