2027: Group debunks report on ‘lazy Nigerian youth’

The Senator Yari National Unity Project for Tinubu 2027 (SYNUP 4 Tinubu 2027) has dismissed reviews that Senator Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari described the Nigerian youth as lazy, stating that his remarks on the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential marketing campaign rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, had been intentionally misrepresented.

The group stated the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Yari, didn’t at any level describe Nigerian youths as lazy throughout his tackle on the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium final Friday.

In an announcement on Monday by its National Coordinator, Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, SYNUP described the reviews circulating in sections of the media and on social media as a distortion of the senator’s remarks.

According to the group, Yari spoke about meals availability, starvation and the prevailing cost-of-living challenges, acknowledging that Nigerians had been experiencing hardship.

It stated the senator particularly acknowledged that “we have hunger” earlier than making the purpose that meals was obtainable in markets and that industrious Nigerians might earn a residing by work and enterprise.

SYNUP maintained that Yari neither talked about nor singled out the Nigerian youth in his remarks, arguing that deciphering his feedback as an assault on younger individuals amounted to political misrepresentation.

The group urged Nigerians to look at the total, unedited video of the rally and assess the senator’s feedback inside their correct context.

SYNUP stated Yari’s message was that productiveness, enterprise and laborious work remained necessary pathways to financial enchancment.

The group highlighted a number of interventions by the previous Zamfara state governor, significantly in training, youth employment, agriculture and social welfare.

It disclosed that the Senator Abdul’aziz Yari Scholarship Initiative, launched in 2024 and personally funded by the senator, had supplied academic assist to 2,055 orphans and indigent college students throughout 19 private and non-private tertiary establishments within the North-West.

The initiative, in accordance with SYNUP, paid N216 million in tuition charges throughout its first yr, supplies every beneficiary with a month-to-month stipend of N15,000 and ensures sponsorship by commencement.

The group additionally stated Yari facilitated the enlistment of 84 younger women and men from the six native authorities areas of Zamfara West into the Nigerian Army’s 86th Regular Recruit Intake, with one other 74 recruited throughout the 87th consumption.

It listed Anka, Bakura, Bukkuyum, Gummi, Maradun and Talata Mafara because the benefiting native authorities areas.

On agriculture, SYNUP stated the senator had supported farmers, together with younger individuals, with fertilisers, agrochemicals and farming gear to enhance agricultural productiveness and meals safety.

It additional recalled that in his tenure as Zamfara state governor between 2011 and 2019, his administration introduced the recruitment of 1,000 NCE-qualified academics in 2017 to strengthen main training and create employment alternatives for graduates.

The group added that Yari supplied meals gadgets and clothes to 10,000 orphans throughout Zamfara state throughout the 2024 Ramadan and Sallah celebrations.