ABUJA–The presidency has said that president Muhammadu Buhari never at any point during his 2015 presidential campaign made a promise of paying N5, 000 monthly stipend to the unemployed graduates in the country. It however stated that there was a provision of half a trillion Naira in the 2016 budget which was mapped out to execute six social safety net programmes. According to the presidency, one of the programmes was a conditional cash transfer where the federal government would pay N5,000 monthly to the vulnerable and extremely poor Nigerians.

Giving clarification to the matter which had become controversial following president Buhari’s reversal of the promise, the media aide to the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande who spoke to State House Correspondents in Abuja on Monday, stated that the payment of N5, 000 to the less privileged contained in the budget would be implemented. Akande also stated that about of 500,000 graduates who would be integrated into the teaching system would be paid N5, 000 token while on training.

His words: “The budget for 2016 which has been submitted to the National Assembly has made an allocation of half a trillion naira, the first time in the history of this country’s budget where you have that huge chunk of money allocated for social investment.

There are six social safety net programmes. One of them is the conditional cash transfer where government is going to pay N5, 000 monthly to the vulnerable and extremely poor Nigerians. That promise stands. “The President never promised to pay unemployed graduates N5, 000; the President never made that promise and the government never made that claim that it will pay N5, 000 to unemployed graduates.

The programme for unemployed graduates is the direct creation of half a million teaching jobs so that they will be trained; 500, 000 unemployed graduates will be trained to teach and they will be deployed to teach, while they are looking for their career paths or jobs. That still stands! “In addition to that, there is also a scheme to train 370, 000 non-graduate youth for skill acquisition and vocational training. During the time of that training, they will also be paid. “So the President did not say that he would be giving unemployed graduates N5, 000.

The N5, 000 monthly stipends which is already in the budget is for the vulnerable Nigerians and the extremely poor. Once the budget is okay , one million extremely poor Nigerians will receive N5, 000 monthly.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/buhari-never-promised-n5000-stipends-during-campaign-presidency/

Ok we don hear, waiting for Lai to say something else

Even their mouth is changing! "Change affecting everywhere"

I never took you guys serious on this issue. I know politicians.

Hmmm am short of words.

i see no changes

We have been hearing news like this for the past 9 months. So i am not surprise.APC should keep denying the promises they make during campaign.
I just want to remind them,that 2019 is in the corner.

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A single lie require another 99lies to sustain it... Maybe they should learn to speak the truth with time. It look easier and economical

promise of "CHANGE" has turned to "CHANGE" of promise...


I wonder what they (APC) were thinking when they made this ridiculous promise, now they are denying it when some of their die hard fan on nairaland here battled one guy tagged "chief wailer/ptotection seeker" on the 5000 naira Subject matter...


Is the APC now calling their die hard fans who battled the tagged protection seeker here on this forum fools and dullards for believing in that campaign promise and defending it here

Nigerians who got scammed by this unrealistic promise I say to them "Good Morning"...SMH