After President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment at the Commonwealth Business Forum on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Westminster, London, suggesting that many Nigerian youths are lazy and expect freebies, many young Nigerians and their allies have reacted angrily, castigating the president for what some have described as a careless and insensitive remark.
Video of President @MBuhari’s comments on the Nigerian youth that has caused a lot of reactions and backlash. pic.twitter.com/GflG05G5G4
— Dr. Aminu Gamawa (@aminugamawa) April 19, 2018
Below is our pick of the top 30 replies from Nigerians to their president, who has made it the hallmark of his presidency to cast Nigeria and Nigerians in bad light when he is abroad.
"Nigerian youths are indeed LAZY.
All they do is:
RIDE EXPENSIVE POWER BIKES, get INJURED, and get FLOWN ABROAD
by their LOUSY PARENTS."#LazyNigerianYouths
— MaLady™️🤗💕🕊 (@its_MaLady) April 20, 2018
These are the “hardworking”, educated & employed Nigerians.
They sleep so hard that they earn N14million, running cost every month.#LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/NgRW5663dq
— Angels in Heaven 🧚♀️🧚♂️ (@badgalmaddie_) April 20, 2018
Me in 2017.
A hard working Nigerian youth running for Governor, rejected all the money offered to me by various parties to step down, toured all nooks and crannies of Anambra State determined to secure a better future for the people.
We are not lazy!#LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/UzbyFVgYEK— Yul Edochie (@YulEdochie) April 20, 2018
I grind day and night to make 3D animations in a country like naija where you have zero support from the government on your dreams. I'm proud to make it work without the government support #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/gNwLG4VkvQ
— Gbenga Emmanuel Ajetomobi (@gbengaAjeh) April 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/OgbeniDipo/status/987237827871215616
https://twitter.com/Mz_kayyy/status/987250733010620416
Both our founders are under 23 years of age and still have a cumulative of over 5 years of experience in T-shirt printing.
Like many Nigerians youths they're Men on a Mission. Not #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/WMw0nSO9dn
— WiiCreate (@wiicreate) April 20, 2018
Some yrs ago, he was in Law Sch with PMB's daughter. He passed his Bar final & she failed! Today, he struggling as a Lawyer who works hard to survive & HALIMA BUHARI who failed d Bar exams at 3 attempts, now drives d most exotic cars around Abj on our bills #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/Ki9K7qWiaj
— Olóyè T.D Esq⚖️‼️ (@BolanleCole) April 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/GirlishLava/status/987225514053177344
It seems that Buhari has managed to confuse me as well.
How is the answer he gave related to the question he was asked?
Chai!#LazyNigerianYouthspic.twitter.com/05FlCeZPRg
— Dot In A Circle – Onye Spare Parts (@The_Jonathanian) April 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/OneBabeLikeThat/status/986856175567241216
https://twitter.com/NonyeBiko/status/987427785781243904
https://twitter.com/ani_nomso/status/986869512132808704
https://twitter.com/Tunnyking/status/986864010174849024
To think his son was treated abroad with "lazy" taxpayer's money after crashing his bike bought with "lazy" taxpayer's money. This thing dey pain me. #LazyNigerianYouths
— Arinze. (@theOtherArinze) April 19, 2018
The president's statement is an insult to this man because chances are the state of things in Nigeria got him here in the first place but still #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/RN1fRj9stN
— SubtleDeviant🖤 (@EvansJens) April 19, 2018
Nigerians will not kill me 😂😂😂#LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/3qgy3CYp7N
— III (@idrisgbd) April 21, 2018
I refuse to be tagged a lazy person, I studied biomedical technology… since unemployment is the of the day, this is my hustle, I have been able to create employment for a few others, yet they say we are lazy #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/MFRuHCsECF
— _mash (@_mashonda) April 20, 2018
Now #LazyNigerianYouths who’s Lazy?@erigganewmoney Yu dey see wetin I dey observe? pic.twitter.com/bqSCmH9ZnJ
— eniOLar_THA_GOAT (@eniolar_thagoat) April 19, 2018
#LazyNigerianYouths Buhari ended PRESSID scholarship. It was based on merit. You all applauded. You all chose N-Power that pays you N5k for doing nothing over You-Win, that gives you a grant for ideas, talents, etc. Buhari is right. Most of you are intellectually lazy.
— Amba (@GwSwaggernaut) April 21, 2018
When you paint your country black before the world, how do you expect the international community to value them?#LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/qZGCSN0TaX
— 🎗️Chika (@nwa_mbaka) April 20, 2018
Hi there! I am a 3D artist I make 3D models and I also make 3D animations. I am not a #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/6OG0sPAK1W
— Gabbi (@Gabrielino007) April 21, 2018
I wrote 18,789 words for my Bsc project in 2007.
I wrote 26,234 words for my Msc dissertation in 2010.
16,563 words for my LLB project this year.
Finally, I tweet daily on the average of 2000 words.
You can see I'm not lazy!
He is the lazy bone.— Olóyè T.D Esq⚖️‼️ (@BolanleCole) April 20, 2018
He's not even a youth yet, but see what he made out of slippers #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/0D8HKDiNRk
— 🔎Mirror🔍 (@Ink_her) April 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/TrendsOfNigeria/status/987396991704498177
https://twitter.com/badt_BOI_/status/987282605363159040
Heavy rain and I see Nigerian youths already hurrying to work. Some are drenched in the rain just to make a living and all our President could say is that we're lazy. That's a big slap on our faces. #LazyNigerianYouths
— Get a JOB here. (@Great_blogging) April 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/k4yod3_/status/987249090366005249
https://twitter.com/Iam_Temitorpe/status/987890340932800513
I am a graduate, I make commercial conventional paints such as emulsion, silk, texcote,flex etc, I facilitate for NYSC SAED on paints making. #LazyNigerianYouths pic.twitter.com/Y58HZwuBA0
— Abisola Isaiah ODEBODE (@abisolaodebode) April 20, 2018
And two bonus tweets from politicians:
I will never refer to Nigeria's youth as people who sit and do nothing. They are hardworking. I should know, I have thousands of youths working for me all over the country who have been the backbone to our success.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) April 19, 2018
Whoever says Nigerian youths are lazy should just buy a mirror and he or she will see the real definition of laziness! I have over 1000 Nigerian youths in my employ and not one of them is lazy.
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) April 18, 2018
Final word!
https://twitter.com/jaja_xcv/status/987408367856640000
