The All Progressives Congress (APC) North-west youth leader, AbdulHamid Mohammed Oscar, has distributed relief items to households and study materials to students in the North-west to cushion the effect of the Naira scarcity.
The relief items distributed include bags of rice, beans and other cooking ingredients in Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto states.
The youth leader said he also empowered women and youth in the region in the areas of education, business creation among others.
Mohammed said he purchased Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) forms for 200 applicants seeking admission into tertiary institutions and distributed study materials to students in Kano and Jigawa states.
He said his reason for investing in education was to help reduce the number of out-of-school children in the North-west, while also supporting his party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision of improving education in the North.
“We got sewing machines, grounding machines and N5, 000 transferred to 400 women’s accounts to support their business initiative,” he said.
He said the leadership of his party and its presidential campaign council were aware of the hardship experienced by the people as a result of the Naira re-design and fuel scarcity, but they promised it would be for a short period.
He urged the residents of Kano and the North-west to cast their votes for Ahmed Bola Tinubu in Saturday’s presidential election.
“Asiwaju has the interest of the North-west at heart and we are confident that he will deliver on his education, health, jobs and infrastructural development to the North once he wins.”
