The All Progressives Congress (APC) leader Senator Bola Tinubu, said his call for the recruitment of 50 million youths into the Nigerian Army was a blunder.
The former Lagos State Governor gave the advice at the 12 Colloquium in Kano organized to commemorate his birthday.
In a statement on Tuesday by his spokesman Tunde Rahman, said the politician canvassed the urgent need to combine employment and national security policy by the recruitment of 5 million youths in all aspects of nation-building, ranging from infrastructural development to agricultural modernization.
The statement read in part “Asiwaju seeks the expansion of security personnel by 50,000 for the armed forces, not the N50 million that was mentioned in error.
“The 50 million was an accidental verbal mistake of which we all commit from time to time especially when reciting a series of large numerical figures.
“Asiwaju Tinubu did not mean N50 million, which is almost a quarter of our total population but 50,000 into the security agencies”.
Rahman noted that Tinubu believes eligible youth should be recruited into the armed forces, police and other security agencies to augment the functional capacity of the nation’s security apparatus.
According to him, Tinubu observed that such strong recruitment would help to tackle unemployment and enhance the safety of every Nigerian.
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