‘Nigerian Youths Are Not Lazy’ – PDP Replies Buhari

An the opposition party, PDP has leapt to the defense of Nigerian youths. Might be propaganda, but we don’t care!

Recall that the President while speaking in London described Nigerian Youths as Lazy. Today, the People’s Democratic Party replied President Buhari, saying the youths are hardworking in whatever vocation they found themselves. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party described as shocking, the comment by the President, noting that his remark brought the nation low in the eyes of the international community. “How can President Buhari describe Nigerian youths as lazy, when they have proven, without doubt, to be one of the most industrious sets of individuals across the world? “Nigerians find it extremely shocking that President Buhari could make such a false, derogatory and unpatriotic comment against our citizens at a time the nation was looking up to him to properly present our potentials to the global business community. “It is alarming that at every international event, the President makes it a favorite past time to de-market, paint and denigrate our dear nation and her citizens in very negative light,” the statement read in part The party blamed the Buhari administration for what it termed its failure to provide job opportunities to the teeming youths population across the country. The party added: “Here is a President, whose administration has in its three years of governance, contributed nothing towards providing opportunities for our youths and who has not initiated or implemented any development project or set up any industry to provide jobs for our aspiring youths. “Here is a President under whose watch, factories and businesses have shut down resulting in over 24 million job losses and under whom no meaningful foreign direct investment has been attracted to the country. “This is a President who daily watches Nigerian youths sweating on menial jobs under very strenuous conditions on the streets of Abuja, Jos, Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Onitsha and other major cities, yet he unsympathetically described them as lazy. “These are the same set of Nigerians who, upon being afforded the right opportunities in other countries of the world, are known to have excelled in various fields of endeavour. “Most disheartening is that these are the same young persons who form the highest demography of voters that put their confidence in him in 2015. Now they are receiving the short end of the stick from the President.”