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President Muhammadu Buhari has finally explained what he meant by the remarks he recently made about Nigerian youths that led to widespread criticisms while he was away in London.

MC EBISCO recalls that while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster penultimate week, President Buhari remarked that a lot of Nigerian youths were lazy and waiting on just governmnet.

“More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t 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, education free,” he said.

Even though the comment was interpreted as a dismissal of the work ethic of most Nigerian youths and drew criticism from political opponents and the public, the president had never directly explained his remarks.

However, while speaking during an interview with Voice of America, Hausa service, in Washington, United States on Tuesday, the President said his words were misinterpreted by the media who love to do what they like.

He explained, “You know Nigeria’s population is now between 180 and 190 million and 60 per cent of this population is youth that is 30 years downward.

“You know in the North most youths are uneducated or school dropouts. If not because we had good harvests in the last two farming seasons, the situation would have been deteriorated.

“These youths even if they travel out of the North for greener pasture ,they hardly make it economically because what they earn as income cannot afford them to meet their basic needs or return home.

“All these explanations I made, they refused to highlight them in their report and you know the media in Nigeria in most cases only do what they like.

“For instance the nation’s achievements in the agricultural sector where millions of Nigerians benefited financially were left unreported by the media.”

President Buhari is currently on a working visit to overseas where he has met his US counterpart, President Donald Trump, at the White House.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/05/media-reported-what-they-liked-on-my.html

Is this not enough to hate the lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra?

They always claim every negative things, they hate positive .

When buhari said Igbos are hard working people and commercially oriented,

They will never like such commendation,

But when buhari said most of the northern youth are uneducated, and not economically viable, but the lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra claimed it.

They cry to high heaven how buhari insulted their sorrowful head,
They even printed T.shirt to be remembering it

Baba u don't need to explain

They think twisting ur statements can make them win election

THEY HAVE FAILED!

alen4smith:
you are the mumu in this scenario

I think you are. As if you don't know they talk B4 thinking,then when it backlashes,they will start bending it

It should be more like "Buhari commented what he thinks on Nigerian youths"

The above statement by buhari is proof that he view Nigerian media with utter disdain, hence his preference for Foreign journalist and media houses. This is akin to a president preferring foreign made goods to locally produced ones. And you wonder why buhari held recession record twice.
Is this who Nigerians expect to develop the economy through home grown products? What a calamity!

because he said what I like about the Nigeria youths.