Buhari breaks promise, says "l can't pay N5,000 to unemployed youths"

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari had dashed the hope of millions of Nigerian youths who might be expecting the N5,000 monthly stipend earlier promised by the APC to be paid to unemployed youths in the country.

The president was said to have made the remarks at the weekend while on a visit to the Middle East.

He said it was wise to use a summation of the funds to put up infrastructures and empower them through agriculture than to give out monies to those who were not doing anything.

He said: "This largesse N5,000 for the unemployed, I have got a slightly different priority. I would rather do the infrastructure, the school and correct them and empower agriculture, mining so that every able bodied person can go and get work instead of giving 5,000, N5,000 to those who don't work."

It will be recalled that All Progressives Congress, APC had during its campaign supported the promise of paying N5,000 as monthly stipend to the most vulnerable in the country.