The federal government has assured that it would commence payment of N5,000 promised unemployed Nigerian youth during the electioneering campaign, from 2016.
Barr. Solomon Dalong at the Ministerial screening
During a condolence visit to the National Chairman of the governing APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, over the death of Abubakar Audu, the party’s guber candidate in Kogi state, Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalong, on Wednesday, said the federal government would commence payment of N5,000 promised unemployed Nigerian youth during the electioneering campaign, from 2016.
Dalong,who spoke to journalists during the visit, said the APC government is fully committed to fulfilling all campaign promises made before the last elections, adding that the payment of the promised N5000 can only begin after it had been included in the budget.
"I would want the youth to understand that every promise must be backed up by budgetary provision and our promise to pay N5000 is not contained in the 2015 budget. So, definitely, it is going to begin in 2016 as we have made budgetary allocations for that.
We are committed to the campaign promises of creating jobs, providing wealth and combat poverty. We have embedded in our manifesto things that we are translating to reality."