“So, I don’t know what those who are against restructuring are afraid of. Those afraid must be lazy. We fought the civil war with the Igbo. Today, the Igbo have been completely rebuilt, but we still find mud houses in the north. Is it the fault of the easterners that the north is like that?”

Atiku Abubakar



This is not a tribal superiority contest, but let us look at this statement and analyse it to the latter

My brother you have lazy people in every tribe but its predominant in the north because they have lived and would always want to live on government stipends

We may not like Atiku but what he was trying to drive at is the fact that Nigerians have become lazy because they get monthly stipends from the federal government and don't see any reason to ut their unique idiosyncrasies to good use. He used the Igbo analogy to explain how Igbos who fought a war for 3 years and denied the very basic need by Nigeria managed to pick themselves up.

Buharimustgo:
My brother you have lazy people in every tribe but its predominant in the north because they have lived and would always want to live on government stipends

Atiku is the lazy one. He has worked for the government and got rich there. 99% of northerners are into primary and service industry and don't rely on any government stipend.

OP go and find out the meaning of FEUDAL SYSTEM and you'll know what's happening to the north.

They are lazy and can't stand on their own. They can't govern themselves!

They are not lazy, but they love free-lunches and would not want to face their fears.......

An individual northern child's ambition is to be a politician, even when they don't know what politics is all about.

They think its just about stealing and sharing it, with illiterates shouting "Rai nka shi daidai"

Technically, that's UNADULTERATED laziness.

They are not lazy. They are just intellectually lacking. I think their religion has a lot to do with it too because it makes them narrow minded and holds them intellectually captive.


Their leaders are not helping matters too, they know western education will open their people's mind and make them see that something is wrong, therefore, they would rather deprive them of that.