Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has promised to turn advance fee fraudsters known as Yahoo boys into technology experts if elected.
Tinubu stated that if elected president in February, he would establish technology hubs for Yahoo boys.
He made the announcement during a campaign rally in Benin, Edo State.
The APC candidate, who described himself as a knowledgeable man, stated that industrial and technology hubs would be established to transform youths into development tools.
He said: “I will convert Yahoo boys and make them useful by converting their talents and intellects to produce chips for industries. We can defeat poverty, ignorance and homelessness. We have the knowledge, we have the brain to do it.
“Trust me. I am an expert in finding the way where there is no way. I found a way to tame the Atlantic in Lagos and turn it to a money-making machine.
“Sociologically, we can make mountains, we can climb Kilimanjaro, we can defeat poverty. We will break the shackle of poverty, ignorance and homelessness.”