The Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung has become a laughing stock after his infamous blunder where he referred to the USA as the ‘United States of Nigeria’.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7cDAvPGiH4

Nigeria’s Minister for Sports, Solomon Dalung, is currently trending on social media, after he called the USA, ‘The United States of Nigeria’ on live television.
While addressing the situation of the U-23 players stranded in Atlanta, the minister said; “Our U-23 team suffering in the United States of Nigeria, What are there for? Because they are U-23 and they went to US and they are having problems, does that become our business?”, prompting the deluge of mocking comments.

As we all expected, the blunder has set the social media on fire as the minister has set his Twitter account to private after heavy bashing from Nigerians.

Below are some of the hilarious comments from Nigerians we culled from Twitter…enjoy!

Aboki Enwen



Pls Wats friend in hausa?

Coz nairaland mod jst changed it to 'northener' o

... Nigerians have got no chill.. Especially on Twitter

I am proudly from united state of Nigeria, maybe this man is a prophet Ooo,who knws wat d future holds for naija

see him cango sef like united state of togo

Lolzzz

lalasticlala, seun, mynd44 come and see your sport Minister

When I was told the guy is a lawyer, I was ashamed to be a professional colleague of his. Can a lawyer be so intellectually deficient? By nature lawyers reason well before speaking. A whole sports minister saying the Olympic eagles team stranded in a country far away from Brazil is none of his business. Buhari took eight months to pick his ministers, but it seems he used the time to scour the length and breadth of Nigeria for some of the most incompetent set of individuals.