Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) for the 2023 general elections has said that some prominent presidential candidates in the race are guilty of age fraud. Colloquially called ‘football age’ in Nigeria, age fraud is age fabrication to gain an advantage over opponents and it is common in sports and the civil service, where some workers use it to illegally delay their retirements. According to Sowore, such presidential candidates falsified their ages to deceive Nigerian youths who are clamouring for youthful leaders.
By Justina Auta
Abuja, March 9, 2021 A Youths Group, under the auspices of Nigerian Youths Movement for Tinubu (NYMT), on Tuesday urged the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Bola Tinubu to join the 2023 presidential race.
Alhaji Mukhtar Mukhtar,Director General, NYMT, while addressing the media in Abuja said the legacies and ideologies of Tinubu clearly portrayed him as a National Leader, who was a rallying point for progressives in the country.
Mukhtar, represented by the group’s North West coordinator, Malam Mustapha Abdrahman,, called on the two-time governor of Lagos state to use his experience in fostering unity, peace and progress in the country and contest for the position of president in 2023 general election.
A pro-Tinubu group, the Nigerian Youths Movement for Tinubu (NYMT), has tipped the former Lagos governor to run for the office of the president in the 2023 general election.