The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) replies President Muhammadu Buhari,
stating that Nigerian youths, by their demonstrated industry, cannot in
any way be described by anybody as lazy.
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.
