President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari, While speaking during an interview with Voice of America on Tuesday, the President again touched on the “uneducated” youth,
despite the outrage generated by his comment on young persons in the
country at a Commonwealth forum in London some weeks ago.
According to TheCable,
while clarifying his comment on young persons in London, President
Buhari said most youth in the north are uneducated or school dropouts,
adding that the comment he made at the Commonwealth forum was taken out
of context.
He told VOA, “You know Nigeria’s population is now between 180
and 190 million and 60 per cent of this population is youth that is 30
years down ward.
“You know in the north most youths are uneducated or school
dropouts. If not because we had good harvests in the last two farming
seasons, the situation would have deteriorated.
“These youths even if they travel out of the north for greener
pasture they hardly make it economically because what they earn as
income cannot afford them to meet their basic needs or return home.
“All these explanations I made, they refused to highlight them
in their report and you know the media in Nigeria in most cases only do
what they like.”