National Youth Leader of the
Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye, has lashed out at
President Muhammadu Buhari over his London comments describing Nigerian youths
as lazy and uneducated.
Faulting the President,
Udeh-Okoye insisted, in a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday, that the
Nigerian youth remained the “most innovative, enterprising, hard working, and
patriotic” people.
He said: “We are saddened by what
has become a habitual and flagrant demarketing of Nigeria and her citizens by
President Muhammadu Buhari, especially anytime he steps outside the shores of
the country. A President sincere about attracting foreign investors would not
go about running his citizens down, telling the entire world that his citizens
are corrupt and now, that the youth, which constitute about 60 per cent of the
country’s population are uneducated, lazy, and unwilling to work”.
The PDP national youth leader
accused the President of standing the truth on its head before the
international community.
“President Buhari should have
instead told the world that this All Progressives Congress (APC) administration
has incurred a debt of over N11 trillion in just three years without any
completed project, especially socio-economic infrastructural projects that will
drive youth entrepreneurship, to show for it in his third anniversary as
President.
“He should have told the
international community that his poor management of the economy has wantonly
devalued the Naira from N160 to a United States Dollar he inherited in 2015 to
between N350 to N400 and has triggered investment flights to neighbouring
countries like Ghana and demise uncountable businesses.
“Indeed, he should have confessed
to the world that over 16 million hard working Nigerians, most of them the
youth, lost their jobs, 18 million became acutely underemployed, and inflation
hit an all-time high due to his incompetence and lack of vision.
“Therefore, to turn around to
stand the truth on its head is unacceptable to the Nigerian youth”, he added.
Udeh-Okoye, however, enjoined the
Nigerian youth to exercise patience as 2019 was already near.
“It is needless joining issues
with Mr. President and his incompetent team, whom besides having nothing to
offer us, want to turn potential helpers and the entire world against us.
“The best answer to this assault
on the sensibilities of the Nigerian youth is to obtain Permanent Voters Card
and be ready to repay the President in his own coin in 2019 by showing him and
the fumbling APC the red card across the country”, he stressed.
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