The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mohammodu Buhari, has been under fire in the past 24 hours after he made a statement on Nigerian youth being lazy. However in a new development, the Presidency on Thursday explained that President was not referring to all the youth in the country.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, made the clarification in a statement made available to journalists.
Adesina attributed the outrage that trailed the President’s comment to those he described as “manipulators and twisters” of Buhari’s statements.
He said:
“Typical of their stock in trade, manipulators and twisters of statements of Mr. President, who lie in wait to make mischief, interpreted the comment to mean that President Buhari had taken all Nigerian youths to the cleaners.
“But elementary English recognises a wide gulf between ‘a lot of’ and the word ‘all.’ How can ‘a lot of them,’ suddenly transmogrify to mean ‘all of them?’ Mischievous and unconscionable!
“There is no way President Buhari, father of the Nigerian nation in every sense of the word, who equally has biological children of his own in the youths age bracket, pass a vote of no confidence on all youths.
“It can only exist in the imagination of those who play what the President has described as ‘irresponsible politics’ with everything.”
The presidential spokesman said Buhari had always applauded and celebrated Nigerian youths who excel in different areas of endeavour, from sports, to academia, and other realms.
He said the President would continue to do so, because he values the youth, and knows that they are the fulcrum on which the future of the country rests.
“Indeed, every country has its share of idle population, and it is the bounden duty of government at all levels, to create an enabling environment for them to actualise their potential. That is what President Buhari is committed to doing.
He is not doing fine at all
Sweet talk, wether he uses “a lot or all” he should think before speaking. A father must portrait his own house/home good no matter the conditions.
Yes I support your view,it can only be irresponsible leader or president that will just address his people the way pm PMB did
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“But elementary English recognises a wide gulf between ‘a lot of’ and the word ‘all.’ How can ‘a lot of them,’ suddenly transmogrify to mean ‘all of them?’
Is it when he use that word ‘all’s that you will know that he don’t know the meaning of what he said in public? If am to follow your speech on ‘a lot of’it means that he ranked 99% youths lazy while 1% is hardworking which also stands as “a lot of”. Come on Mr. Man try and educate your boss because I believe you went to school and you should know more than him.
But 2019 will voice out if truly the youths of this country are lazy or not. I will urge every youths in this country to please go and be hardworking by getting your PVC so that it will tell if truly we are lazy or not.
I can’t even remember if any president had ever uttered such a word to his people.
On what reason should the president call any nigerian illiterate and lazy in the public? He said 60% of our populations are lazy and illiterates, pls what a statement is this? Did he really understand what it means for more than half the total populalion of a country to be lazy and illiterate? Before Buhari became president he castigated federl govt. For not creating employments for a lot of nigerian youths or pay them monthly stipends but today he is calling them illiterates and lazy.by the way, which school did buhari go and what did he achieve in his personal life to show that he is a hard working man?.pls this man should think before talking.
Just kick Buhari out come 2019. If Buhari is voted again to power it will cause Nigeria a 40years setback. And this must not happen again in our days so dat the coming generation will not suffer worse than we are in. I pray division in APC, you all will both understand yourself
There is God.
He should crent a job for us