Many actions are still required to mobilise young people to run for elected positions. These include encouraging young people to track illicit campaign funds and unaccountable political funding, which is one of the major hindrances pushing young people further away from access to power. Unless this is done, old politicians who have amassed immeasurable wealth from looting the treasury while in power will continue to dominate the political scene.
Additionally, CSOs are still in need of capacity strengthening, information and learning exchange visits and financial support, in order to sustain their advocacy to ensure that young people are readily available with improved skills and knowledge to contest, win and handle political positions.
The experience of campaigning for the new law taught us that coordinated strategic action may bring about a desired and lasting political change. The Not-Too-Young-To-Run coalition enhanced the reach of advocacy efforts, enabled greater efficiency and effectiveness by combining resources and skills, leveraged the comparative advantages of each member and reduced duplication.
Stronger civil society coalitions are the way to go for future endeavours aimed at improving democratic practices and consolidating democracy across the nations of the world. Age qualifications to hold political office: a civil society experience from Nigeria. Civil society responses To begin a peaceful and legitimate movement to address age limitation issues beyond politics, a young opposition legislator sponsored a bill, the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Amendment Bill, which was drafted in consultation with civil society organisations CSOs.
The June 12 election and subsequent annulment marked the beginning of a decades long struggle to see the election result restored and democracy rehabilitated.
The annulment of the election result was not taken lightly in the south-Western part of the country. Civil violence in the South Western states provoked by electoral fraud and political exclusion previously contributed to the breakdown of the first and second republics. These ran from to when Nigeria had its return to democratic rule.
This in turn raised the spectre of wider civil conflicts and state collapse. In his official reaction to the annulment, Abiola was quoted as saying :.
I might embark on the programme of civil disobedience in the country. If those who make the law disobey the law, why should I obey it? There is a limit to the authenticity one could expect from a military ruler who is obviously anxious to hang on to power. The Campaign for Democracy spearheaded mass protests by calling for a five-day non-violent protest. Protests later turned violent. At least protesters were killed, shot by police. The violence prompted a mounting exodus from the major cities, as southern ethnic groups most especially the Ibos , fearing a recurrence of the communal purges which had preceded the Civil War, fled to their home regions.
Since , northeastern Nigeria has been hit by security challenges. Boko Haram, a group that wants to establish an Islamic state following a strict interpretation of Islamic law, has waged a deadly insurgency. The violence has spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military coalition against the armed group. In recent weeks, the coalition forces have pounded Boko Haram hideouts in the Lake Chad area with air strikes as well as launching ground assaults.
Boko Haram fighters kidnapped at least girls from a secondary school in Chibok town. Five years after the attack, more than girls are still missing. A total of girls have been found or released as part of a deal between the Nigerian government and the armed group. Arbitrary arrests and torture are not common. Under the military, press freedom was severely restricted. International and local observers bin declare di June 12 election as di freest and fairest of dem all, But e no come to reality.
Di events wey happun wey make am so, wetin hapun afta and di impact e get on Nigeria and im democracy na something wey don form a major part of Nigeria history and sometin wey go ever make June 12 a very special and painful day for some. Even though international and local observers declare say di election na di freest and fairest, di military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida den cancel di election ontop allegation of wuru-wuru and mago-mago.
Di election wey dem cancel cause palava and Babangida step aside on August 27, Afta im declaration, dem begin find am ontop accuse of treason and under di command of General Sani Abacha, dem finally arrest am on June 23, Dem detain Abiola for four years, tori be say aside from di Bible and Qur'an, im no get any source of info of di outside world.
Abiola die on July 7, , di day dem suppose release am from detention. Abiola na ogbonge businessman, publisher and politician and wey come from Ogun State South West of Nigeria. He make im money and gain popularity through various enterprises, wey include communication, oil and gas. MKO bin first run for presidency for wen a military coup d'etat overthrow di second republic sitting, President Shehu Shagari, to install Muhammadu Buhari as military leader and election no later hold.
One political analyst, Damilola Agbalajobi bin write for one of her article for 'the conversation' say at dis time for wey Abiola first run for presidency, "Nigeria bin dey endure a great deal of political palava and e don dey happun since im independence for
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