THE effort of the Presidency to defend President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments on Nigerian Youths has been described as imbecilic.

While answering a question at the Commonwealth Business Forum in London on Wednesday, President Buhari had cause to talk about Nigerian youths.

Mr Buhari had described the youths as illiterates who are lazy and want freebies with the notion that the nation is an oil producing country.

He had said: “We have a very young population; our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. More than 60 per cent of the population is below the age of 30. A lot of them have not been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country, therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, healthcare and education free.”

His comments sparked reactions from the country’s young population who lambasted the president over his comments on them.



Defending Buhari, the Presidency blamed those it called ‘statement twisters‘ as those who manipulated the president’s comments about the youths.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement denied the president disparaged Nigerian youths, adding that, “Elementary English recognizes a wide gulf between “a lot of” and the word “all.”

Adesina asked, “How can “a lot of them,” suddenly transmogrify to mean “all of them?”

The remarks of the presidential aide did not go down well with a Human Rights Activist, Inibehe Effiong, prompting him to describe the attempt by Adesina to defend his principal as ‘imbecilic.’

Effiong, 29, a legal practitioner who resides in Lagos said the President remarks about Nigerian youths amounts to being irresponsible assertion of deficit in governance skills while describing him as one who has no integrity.

“How many times has Buhari held a media chat since he assumed office? How many interviews has this President granted in Nigeria? How many new books has Buhari read in the last two years?

“What has Buhari done to change the comatose state of our educational system? A President that only regains his voice when he is abroad should not be taken seriously by the citizens.

“You do not constantly malign your country and people before imperial governments. That is not bluntness or being truthful, it is an irresponsible assertion of deficit in governance skills by a man who is paid to lead.

“Buhari has no integrity. People should stop associating Buhari with integrity.

“Under this same Buhari’s “integrity” administration, We’ve seen how children of the political class are getting preferential treatment in recruitment into ‘lucrative’ agencies to the disadvantage of the “lazy Nigerian youths”. Mr. Fake Integrity has not given citizens equal treatment but speaks condescendingly of the poor youths.

“I live and work in Lagos, a state where people barely sleep well because most residents are ceaselessly busy with their work. As early as 4AM, people are struggling to make ends meet. There is just ‘no dull moment’ in Lagos. A vast majority of residents of Lagos are young people. Go to Computer Village in Ikeja and see the determined spirit of Nigerian youths.

“Trying to distinguish “a lot of young Nigerians” from “all young Nigerians” is the most imbecilic attempt to defend the indefensible outbursts of Buhari. This is a country that has become a Destiny Killer to young people, largely because of failed leaders like Buhari.

“Here is a man whose children are feeding fat on the wealth of the long suffering people of Nigeria whose fortunes have been greatly diminished by his unparalleled incompetence and unprecedented nepotism. Buhari has insulted the lifeline of this nation; young people.

“Buhari behaves like a deaf and dumb person whenever he is in Nigeria by speaking in laconic terms but will always become offensively and irritatingly loquacious once he leaves the shores of Nigeria.

“This President is rude, ungrateful and grossly incompetent,” Effiong said.

Source: https://www.headlineng.com/attempt-defend-buharis-comments-youths-imbecilic-lawyer/

Defending Buhari, the Presidency blamed those it called ‘statement twisters‘ as those who manipulated the president’s comments about the youths.

If a video to this effect had not emerged this guys could have denied the president ever made such statement.

Let the useless people go to hell. Most Nigerian youths are lazy idiots that prefer to watch big brother. if they werent lazy they would have taken time to know the difference between 'a lot of' and 'all'

Buhari till 2023!

Sometimes i wonder how these 30000 naira buhari media crew members sleep at night after they finish defending their pay master.
And i just have to pity them
Buhari is making their job difficult as the day goes by but what else were they expecting from an illiterate who has no waec certificate

I will be voting for Sowore, he has been the one reminding us of the corruption in this administration.
He was almost killed defending our democracy.

He has built Sahara reporters to an enviable standard.

Not like our president whose cow doesn't even increase yearly

This work done by Mike Asukwo before today (because I saw it on his twitter account yesterday) was timely and in my view sums it up nicely.

abduljabbar4:
Let the useless people go to hell. Most Nigerian youths are lazy idiots that prefer to watch big brother. if they werent lazy they would have taken time to know the difference between 'a lot of' and 'all'

Buhari till 2023!

Bros, ur Mumu don enter season 2 and instead of ur papa to go fine remedy him stay there dry sacrifice you as a burnt offering to Buhari. Sorry ooo

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i'm very very lazy o but the energy i use in hustling, yusuf uses it to ride bike

"You know in Nigeria, we are usable to be in acrimony and the bible said whoever steal will be damaged. Me i don't want to be damage."

abduljabbar4:
Let the useless people go to hell. Most Nigerian youths are lazy idiots that prefer to watch big brother. if they werent lazy they would have taken time to know the difference between 'a lot of' and 'all'

Buhari till 2023!

A lot =most.
What affects one affects all.

shallysgirl:
A lot =most. What affects one affects all.

Thats how you fail exams. Even 30% is a lot. it doesnt have to be most

abduljabbar4:
Let the useless people go to hell. Most Nigerian youths are lazy idiots that prefer to watch big brother. if they werent lazy they would have taken time to know the difference between 'a lot of' and 'all'

Buhari till 2023!

Bros, what will your Children say about you when they see your idiotic display of self inflicted myopical ignorance.
Haba! Think about it.
Try to be a good boy. Okay?

They haven't heard that injury to one is injury to all. Who will be identified as the 'lot' and the 'rest' of the Nigerian youths?

This is the best description of this mistake of a president:

“This President is rude, ungrateful and grossly incompetent,”...

abduljabbar4:
Let the useless people go to hell. Most Nigerian youths are lazy idiots that prefer to watch big brother. if they werent lazy they would have taken time to know the difference between 'a lot of' and 'all'

Buhari till 2023!

I hope this includes Yusuf Buhari that has no known job or source of income but rides expensive bikes at a time 'lazy' Nigerians were queueing up for petrol his father's government couldn't supply efficiently at the time; injures himself and gets treated abroad with an undisclosed amount of public funds.

abduljabbar4:


Thats how you fail exams. Even 30% is a lot. it doesnt have to be most

You are utterly brainless!
In English language, a lot means 'many' or ' to a great extent''.
Like this young lawyer said, only imbeciles would try to defend this goof.

Buhari said: “We have a very young population; our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. More than 60 per cent of the population is below the age of 30. A lot of them have not been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country, therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, healthcare and education free.”
How can a reasonable person wants to defend this demeaning & ignoble statement except one is not an incurable dullard?
Ori mi koni gba abode.

abduljabbar4:
Let the useless people go to hell. Most Nigerian youths are lazy idiots that prefer to watch big brother. if they werent lazy they would have taken time to know the difference between 'a lot of' and 'all'

Buhari till 2023!

Accept a mistake nw, an international disgrace sef, American watch big brother, Australian watch big brother pls are they also lazy.
And to me a lot means above medium, excess, so wot are u saying.
Nd yu also said Nigerian youth are lazy, pls can u tell me we are lazy in terms of wot, is it academically, in sports and entertainment, medical, engineering broadcasting line, hustling line, cyber line even internationally they knew us has hard working pple e.t.c. So i will advice u to kip mute if u dnt knw wot laziness mean.

You just have to know how many Nigerian youths are either on death row or serving jail times in other people's country for peddling drugs and other criminal activities to agree with pmb. Even if he had attempted to paint us white before the world, it wouldn't have worked, they already know we are black.

Sirjamo:
You just have to know how many Nigerian youths are either on death row or serving jail times in other people's country for peddling drugs and other criminal activities to agree with pmb. Even if he had attempted to paint us white before the world, it wouldn't have worked, they already know we are black.

It is not his place to make such negative statements as chief image maker of the country particularly when the question he was asked had absolutely nothing to do with Nigerian youths.

APC should appoint someone who will do this to Buhari whenever he is living the shores of this country

I find it puzzling that people are offended by Buhari speech, what do you expect from a secondary school dropout?
He is chief in abusing the sensibility of his people, that's what dullards do.

The brainless, foolish, irritating, semi-illiterate dullard who has nothing to offer nigerians except insults, blames, suffering and death deserves every negative word in the english dictionary but then, the only permanent solution to this presidential disgrace is to kick the old dinosaur back to his famine ravaged, impoverished sahel desert village in daura. He can then spend his retirement life throwing tantrums and insults on his family, cows and friends as much as he likes until his biological clock stops ticking.

No one can explain this obvious gaffe by president Buhari. If he wants to advice nigerian youths, he should communicate when in Nigeria.
How many presidential media chats have held since he assumed power? But the moment he travels abroad he starts de-marketing the country.
He is out of tune with the suffering masses

Buhari your statement is hate speech

a lot means bulk, bunch, collection, concentration, gathering, great deal, load, lot, lots, million, sum, thousand, total, trillion, whole

you cant defend it....this guy talks too much....wtf....

saying that nigerians are lazy is an insult..................

somebody should tell this guy to shattap....

we,nigerians are not lazy....