Obasanjo tackles Buhari over #LazyNigerianYouth comment

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday wondered how Nigerian youths could be described as being lazy with all the travails they have been subjugated to.

He said that even the great grandfathers of Nigerian youths would never go as far as President Muhammadu Buhari allegedly did to dub youths of the country as being lazy.

Buhari allegedly made the comment during a recent trip to United Kingdom at the Heads of Commonwealth summit in London.

But Obasanjo, who spoke in Ibadan when the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) held a Town Hall meeting in the Oyo State capital, wondered how Nigerian youths could be said to be lazy despite what they go through in the Sahara Desert, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea.

He said, “But let me assure you of one thing. Having gone this far, I will not leave you high and dry, and I know God will continue to be with us. But don’t ever think that it will be easy. Men of valour don’t run away from challenges and it is the same thing with women of honour, except lazy men and women. But they said our youths are lazy.

“Recently, I was in the United States and I said our youths have gone through many things in the Sahara Desert, in Libya and the Mediterranean, and somebody would say they are lazy; their great grandfathers would never try to go that far”.

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The former president urged members of the movement not to be cowed or allow themselves to be discouraged saying that “they will try to intimidate you individually or collectively. For me, I don’t think there is anyone that can intimidate me. Let me remind you, I have gone through many things. I have been jailed without committing any offence. Where is the person that jailed me?”

At the Town Hall meeting, CNM said that it would at the right time direct more than three million of its members to the platform it would use in the forthcoming general elections.

 

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