Kano – A Don, Prof. Ahmed Falaki, has attributed the post-election violence in some states in the northern part of the country to poverty and unemployment.

Falaki of the Centre for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, speaking with the  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano, described the teeming number of unemployed youths in the country as “a time-bomb that could explode anytime if steps are not taken to address the situation’’.

Falaki said the number of youths in Kano and other cities in the country, “who have no skills or proper education, are increasing every year’’.

“This group of people simply exploited the opportunity presented by the announcement of the presidential election results to strike.

“They always wonder how and why the few wealthy ones in the society flaunt their riches, drive flashy and expensive cars and build exotic mansions, while the poor live in squalor and abject poverty,’’ he said.

Falaki, therefore, advised President Goodluck Jonathan to initiate youth empowerment programmes and skills acquisition projects as well as promote the welfare of the average Nigerian.