- 35-year-old Chike Ukaegbu has announced his ambition to contest in the 2019 presidentail election
- Imo state born Ukaegbu is a technology entrepreneur who lives in New York
- He is yet to announce his preferred political party for the contest scheduled for February 2019
A 35-year-old Nigerian, Chike Ukaegbu, on Thursday, June 28, said he wants to become the country’s youngest presidential candidate.
Ukaegbu's interest in the position comes weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari passed a law reducing age limits for political office.
The new legislation lowers the minimum age for presidential candidates from 40 to 35, state governors and senators from 35 to 30, and national and state assembly members now at 25.
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“Chike Ukaegbu announced his candidacy for president of Nigeria — a country with over 60 percent of the population between the ages of 18 and 35. At the age of 35, Chike aspires to become the youngest civilian president of the youthful African nation,” his publicist said in a statement.
Imo state born Ukaegbu is a technology entrepreneur who lives in New York, United States of America.
He said he was not yet affiliated to any particular party “but will be choosing from one of the current 68 political parties in the coming weeks.”
“We are down to five that we are still evaluating before we decide,” he added in an email.
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Meanwhile, a group, Good Governance Initiative (GGI), has lent its voice to the call for resignation or sack of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, before the 2019 general elections.
At a press conference held in Abuja on Sunday, June 18, chairman of the group, Anosike Nwosu, stated that the 2019 polls would not be free and fair with Yakubu in the saddle as chairman of INEC, expressing fear that he would compromise the results.
The fear of the group, according to Nwosu, stems from what he described as Yakubu’s ethno-religious relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari, the ground on which he alleged that plans had been concluded to manipulate the exercise in favour of the president.
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