How we got #NotTooYoungToRun Bill to trend, become law –Mbamalu, Yiaga Africa co-founder

At first, there were five of us who started Yiaga Africa, then two others later joined. Some people were coming and going. It was first a student association before it became a non-governmental organisation. In 2009, we submitted a memo for the national review committee of the Senate at the National Assembly requesting for the reduction of age to contest for office, among other things.At the time, we were just a couple of friends talking.

In 2015, post-election, we had done a youth candidacy analysis to ascertain how many young persons were candidates.

The bill actually had the proposal for age and independent candidacy, but in the end, only that of age scaled through. Because we had learnt from previous engagements, we decided to build a movement around this, not make a coalition or Yiaga thing, but make it a Nigerian youth thing, so that young people were leading it across the board.

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