Lai Mohammed has said that President Buhari was quoted out of context.
This is following the President’s comment at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, April 18, 2018.
Buhari said “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.”
The comment which has sparked outrage among Nigerian youths, has put the Presidency on defence mode.
Femi Adesina said that his boss’ words were deliberately twisted by mischief makers to fit their agenda.
He said that Buhari did not say that all Nigerian youths are lazy, but rather a lot of them.
“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,” he added.
Rising in defence of his boss, the minister of information said some people have made it their job to twist whatever the President says.
According to him, youth development is the main priority of the Federal Government.
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