A support group mobilising for the re-election of President Bola Tinubu, known as the Senator Yari National Unity Project for Tinubu 2027 (SYNUP 4 Tinubu 2027), has dismissed reports that the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari, described Nigerian youths as lazy.
The group said the reports were a deliberate distortion of Yari’s remarks at the APC presidential campaign rally held at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, November 6, insisting that the former Zamfara State governor neither mentioned nor singled out Nigerian youths in his comments.
In a statement by its National Coordinator, Dr. Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, SYNUP, said Yari’s remarks were about food availability, the cost of living and the importance of hard work and productivity in overcoming economic challenges.
It explained that Yari had acknowledged the country’s economic difficulties by openly stating that, “We have hunger” before speaking about the availability of food in markets and the capacity of hardworking Nigerians to provide for themselves.
The group, therefore, described the interpretation of his comments as an attempt to create a controversy around his person and distract attention from the activities of the Tinubu/Shettima campaign.
“What was actually said was a statement on the dignity of work, made by a man who had just acknowledged that hunger exists. To turn that into the headline ‘Yari calls youths lazy’ is not reporting; it is spin,” the statement said.
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