Some youths on Tuesday protested at the National Assembly, to demand the passage of the ‘not too young to run’ bill.
The protesters blocked the main entrance after security officials allegedly denied them access.
The former chairman, Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, while addressing the protesters said the youth are the future of the country.
“We are in a country with a median age of 19 but people who want to save Nigeria’s unity have an average age of over 60.
“At our age the average age of the Nigerian youth given our life expectancy, we are already in the middle age and life expectancy for women is 51 and falling, for men it’s 49 and falling.
“So if you are in your 20s, you are in your middle age people like me are already in injury time and people like us should be seeking to replace ourselves with the kind of people who are leading the not too young to run movement,” he said.
“That is one promising thing about us. So today let us go and take the national assembly asunder if we must.
“We need to create inconvenience, if we don’t create inconvenience, nobody knows you are demonstrating. Let us cause some inconvenience, let Nigerians know young people matter.
“For the sake of this country, we need young people in office, we need young people in power, we need young people taking control.” he said.
