REVEALED! LIST OF PRESIDENTS WHO ARE 70 YEARS AND ABOVE

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became President of
Liberia at age 70 in 2006. She was 75 in 2011. She will remain president till 2016, at the age of 80 years

• President Jacob Zuma of South Africa is 72
years old. He will be
president till 2019 at 77 years

• Nelson Mandela, born in 1918, became
President of South Africa in 1994 at the age of 76. Still president in 1998
when he stepped down
for Mbeki at the age of 80. If he had served
two terms, he would have been 84

• President Peter Mutharika of Malawi was 74 when he was sworn in on 31 May, 2014. He will be president till 2019 at 79

• President Alpha Conde of Guinea is now 76 years old. He was sworn-in in December 2011 when he was at 72

• President Jose Eduardo Santos of Angola is 72. He will be president till 2020

• President Abde Bourtefilka of Algeria is 77 years old, and will be
in office till 2020 and he will be 83 years old
then

• President Alasanne Quattara of Ivory Coast
was 72 years in 2012, and will be President till 2016

• Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has been
president since 1985. He won another seven years-term in 2013 , and will be president till 2020 when he is 84

• President Jose Mujiaga of Uruguay was 75 years old when elected. He is 79 years now

• President Tedoro Oblang Nguema
Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea, was born on January 6, 1942. He is 72 years old and still going on

• President Michael Sata, Zambia, is 77 years old. He became president September 23, 2011 at 74, and will rule till
2016 when he will be 79

• President Paul Biya of Cameroon is 81
years old. He will be in office till 2017 at the
age of 84

• President Milos Zeman of Chech Republic is 70 years old and will be
in office till 2018 when he is 74

• Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia is 88 years old
and he assumed office
in 2014 at 87 years old

• Ronald Reagan, born on February 06, 1911,
became US President at 70, and served two terms before retiring in 1989 at the age of 78

• Abdul Halim of Malaysia is 87 years old. He assumed office in 2011 at age 84

• Karolos Papoulias president of Greece is 85 years old. He assumed office in 2005 at age 76

• Anerood Jugnauth Prime Minister of
Mauritius is 84 years old. He
assumed office in 2014 at age 83

• Raul Castro of Cuba is 84 years old. He assumed office in 2008 at age 77

• Artur Rasizade of Azerbaijan is 79 years old. He assumed office in 2003 at age 68

• Mahmud Abbas of Palestine is 79 years old.
He assumed office in 2005 at age 70

• Shimon Peres of Isreal was 90 at the time his term ended in 2014

• Eamon De Valera of Ireland was 90 years
when his term ended in 1973

• Joaquin Balague of Domican Republic was
89years old when his term ended in 1996

• Giorgio Napolitano of Italy was 89 years old.
when he resigned from
government in 2015

• Luis Alberto Sánchez Prime Minister of Peru
was 88years old when he resigned his appointment in 1989

• Girma Wolde-Giorgis of Ethiopia was 88 years old when his term ended in 2013

0 • Sandro Pertini of Italy was 88 years old when his term ended in 1985; Also,

• Obafemi Awolowo was 74 during his last
attempt at presidency in 1983.

• Nnamdi Azikiwe was 79 when he contested
for presidency in 1983

Courtesy: Unity and one – Nigeria forward