The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has repiled President
Muhammadu Buhari, stating that Nigerian youths, by their demonstrated
industry, cannot in any way be described by anybody as lazy.
A statement signed by the party's National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, read
''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, an
indication that he has stopped believing in Nigeria.
Mr. President’s latest salvo is totally unacceptable and
must be condemned by all right-thinking people to avoid further verbal
assault against our country, particularly at international fora.
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?
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.
Nigerians can now see that when the PDP accused President
Buhari of de-marketing our nation, we were not playing politics. It is
however saddening that after de-marketing his own generation, President
Buhari is set to destroy the future of younger Nigerians.
We ask, now that President Buhari has gone ahead to
denigrate our youths, who form the bulk of our workforce, as lazy and
lovers of freebies, how can he expect any foreign investor to bring in
investment into our country?
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.
Our final take is that the Buhari Presidency and the All
Progressives Congress (APC) have done enough harm to our dear nation and
there are no signs that they will change their stance. Nigerians,
especially the youths, must therefore spare no thoughts in their resolve
to vote them out in 2019''.
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