Nigeria : l'histoire folle de Mahmud Sadis Buba, le candidat qui prétendait avoir 31 ans
Mahmud Sadis Buba will not be a candidate in the 2027 parliamentary elections. The young man, a member of the ruling APC party, announced the withdrawal of his candidacy after the revelation of his true age.
In an interview with *BBC Pidgin*, he presented himself as having hereditary dwarfism and claimed to have been born in 1995. An age that placed him well above the legal threshold of 25 years required by the Nigerian Constitution to sit in the House of Representatives.
The case took a dramatic turn following an investigation by the media outlet *Peoples Gazette*. Based on Nigerian identity records, the newspaper indicated that Mahmud Sadis Buba was actually 15 years old.
Faced with the controversy and his obvious ineligibility, the candidate finally withdrew from the race.
On social media, the case has reignited the debate on the verification of candidacies in Nigeria, one year before the 2027 legislative elections.
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