Tinubu clarifies his comment on recruitment of 50m youths, says he made a mistake

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),  has described his comment that 50 million youths should be employed into the Army as “an accidental verbal mistake”. This is following reactions from Nigerians on the comment.

Tunde Rahman, Tinubu's media aide, in a statement on Tuesday,  clarified that Tinubu “seeks the expansion of security personnel by 50,000 for the armed forces not the 50 million that was mentioned in error. It was an accidental verbal mistake of which we all commit from time to time especially when reciting a series of large numerical figures," he said.

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