Hours after Kwara state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, announced the nomination of Kaosarah Adeyi, a 24-year-old University of Ilorin Graduate as a Commissioner, one of the proponents of the #NotTooYoungToRun law, Samson Itodo, faulted the nomination.
Adeyi was among the eight new commissioner nominees sent to the Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday for confirmation by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
Citing Section 106 of the 1999 amended constitution, Itodo said the criteria for being appointed a Commissioner of any state in Nigeria is 25 years.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in April 2018 signed the #NotTooYoungToRun bill into law.
The amended law reduced the age qualification for president from 40 to 30; governor from 35 to 30; senator from 35 to 30; House of Representatives membership from 30 to 25 and State House of Assembly membership from 30 to 25.
It is unclear whether the State Assembly will clear Adeyi when she appears for screening on Thursday.
She graduated from the Forestry and Wildlife Department, University of Ilorin in 2019, and had her National Youth Service in Oyo state.
The youngest commissioner-designate is a native of Ojuekun-Sarumi Ward in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State and had served in many capacities, including as a Student Union Vice President in University of Ilorin and recently as a member of the Kwara State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on #EndSARS protest.
She is also the member representing Kwara State on the Northern Governors’ Forum Committee on Youth Engagement, Priorities and Inclusion in Government.
