A Legal Practitioner and Human Rights Activist, Comrade Moshood Erubami has described Not Too Young To Run Law as a deception carefully packaged by the power-that-be to deceive the Nigerian Youths for them to stay longer in power.
Com. Erubami made his views known to the public while featuring on Raypower 95.1 FM current affairs programme called POLITICS TODAY last Monday.
Reacting to the message of APC Deputy National Youth Leader, Hon. Afeez Bolaji Repete whose his recorded voice was played by the host of the programme Olayemi Afolabi while the political show was going on said “We gather here to teach ourselves how to use PVC and the message is very simple, as you can see the youths are united to take their destiny into their hands so come 2023 Nigerian Youths will take their destiny into their hands.”
Com. Erubami replied saying “I heard Repete, Repete is my Brother, they are saying they want to take thier destiny into their hands, which hands? When the people they are talking about are already saying they are leaders of tomorrow not today oo. They even passed a law to deceive them, ‘Not Too Young To Run’ what they should have said is ‘Not Too Young To Rule’ and after saying Youths aren’t too young to run, they went through their back to put financial obstacle.
“For example now if you want to go into the house of representatives, you must have 4 millions to buy expression form and nomination form. Where will the youths get the money? The law will only be there but the money to make the law effective will not be there. They can only get that money through godfather, godfather is always good in politics but is the agents that are bad, you remember in Ibadan here one person was asking for 25 percent of the security vote. So at the Liberty Stadium I expected Repete and his people to interrogate the government and you know, the party leaders where are we going to get this so so amount of money except your children? And that is why you heard children of governors in one position or the other because the money is there and they don’t know how to spend it.’
When Afolabi further asked the Human Rights Activist why he left politics and relaxed after defeating military in 1999 Erubami said “It is not that we relax, they (military government) relaxed us because of one condition or the other”
