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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, has denied calling Nigerian youths lazy, accusing critics of a deliberate distortion of his remarks at the party’s rally in Uyo on November 6.
The former Zamfara State governor was quoted as describing youths as lazy at the rally. His camp, in a statement by Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, said he never mentioned or singled out Nigerian youths.
Shinkafi said Yari began by stating that there was hunger, then added that food was available in markets and industrious Nigerians would put food on their tables.
He said the full, unedited clip was in the public domain and urged Nigerians to watch it and judge for themselves. He also called on media organisations that published the claim to review the footage and correct the record.
Shinkafi said the senator acknowledged the economic pressure on households and that his message was that work, enterprise and productivity remained the surest route out of hardship. Yari, he added, has long engaged in jobs and skills.
