Bola Tinubu’s recommendation of ‘agbado’ and ‘cassava’ diets for youths to be recruited into Nigeria’s armed forces shows he is forward thinking, his campaign spokesman Festus Keyamo asserts.
At a Kano event to mark his 69th birthday on March 29, 2021, Mr Tinubu advised the federal government to recruit 50 million youths into the various security agencies to tackle worsening insecurity.
“Recruit 50 million youths into the army, what will they eat? Cassava, corn, yam, will grow here,” Mr Tinubu said.
The statement has however become a butt of jokes among Nigerians who say the presidential hope is out of sync with current economic realities.
interview with Trust TV, however, said the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate’s ‘agbado’, ‘cassava’ talk “is an euphemism for food security.”
“What should he talk about if he doesn’t talk about garri? Cassava is garri. Agbado is the major grain and you have a lot of by-products from agbado which is corn in Yoruba,” the spin doctor argued.