BREAKING: Tinubu admits goof after ’50 million youths into Army’ comment

Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, stated his name for the recruitment of fifty million youths into the Nigerian Military was a blunder.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chief gave the recommendation on the 12 Colloquium in Kano organized to commemorate his birthday.

The spokesman, Tunde Rahman, in an announcement on Tuesday stated the politician canvassed the pressing want to mix employment and nationwide safety coverage by the recruitment of 5 million youths in all elements of nation-building, starting from infrastructural improvement to agricultural modernization.

He famous that Tinubu believes eligible youth must be recruited into the armed forces, police and different safety companies to reinforce the practical capability of the nation’s safety equipment.

“Asiwaju seeks the growth of safety personnel by 50,000 for the armed forces not the N50 million that was talked about in error.

“The 50 million was an unintentional verbal mistake of which all of us commit infrequently particularly when reciting a collection of huge numerical figures.

“Asiwaju Tinubu didn’t imply N50 million, which is sort of 1 / 4 of our whole inhabitants however 50,000 into the safety companies”, the assertion learn.

Rahman stated the essential matter Tinubu noticed was that such robust recruitment would serve the twin-purpose of serving to to deal with unemployment whereas on the similar time enhancing the protection of each Nigerian.

BREAKING: Tinubu admits goof after ’50 million youths into Military’ remark