‘Lazy Youth’: Buhari Suffering From ‘Intellectual Idleness’ – Group

In a stern warning on Monday, the Unified Nigeria Youth Forum has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw his remark suggesting that Nigerian youth are indolent.

The non-governmental organization said against his claim that the youth are lazy; it is President Buhari that is allegedly “suffering from intellectual idleness” as it was seen when he couldn’t constitute his cabinet until after several months.

The UNYF, therefore, asked President Buhari to unreservedly apologise to the youth or risk his re-election as their leader in 2019.

The group said the current administration is only best at engaging in blame games while worsening unemployment rate in the country.

The group said this through its President, Abulsalam Mohammed Kazeem, in a statement in Kaduna State.

The statement reads: “Your administration lacks the moral right to call us names because the only thing your administration have in stock is to blame past administration where over 80 percent of your cabinet members are once part of that administration. Yet Mr President is misinforming the world by trying to hide his inadequacies by blaming the youths when even the budget for education and health is not even enough to fund the sectors.

“Our population as a nation is supposed to be an added advantage, but is not, because of the inabilities of both past and present administrations that have failed to fix our power sector.

“Mr President should be ashamed of himself, his generation and administration for spending over 20 billion US dollars since 1999 till date and yet we are paying for darkness, no investors will invest in any nation where there is no stable power supply like ours (Nigeria). Where are the youth going to get the job from?”

“The youths are making the most of what has been left for them, which is nothing as we can all see and feel. Mr President should tell the world that their generation is the idle generation because they have stolen the patrimony of Nigerian youth.

“It took the same president six good months to form his cabinet and yet the only new faces on the list were Kemi Adeosun, late Ocholi and Bar.Solomon Dalung, at this point it’s not wrong for we “the youths” to say that Mr. President is suffering from intellectual idleness for his in-abilities to give us a strong, new and a viable cabinet within seven days of his inauguration?

“Under his watch, unemployment has climbed from 8.2% in 2015 to 18.8% in 2018. Many of us want to work but have no opportunities. Most youth today are willing and able but the fraudulent system we found ourselves could not provide the enabling environment.”