Buhari Mocked for About-Turn On 'Lazy' Youths

Nigeria's opposition Peoples Democratic Party has described President Muhammadu Buhari's praise of Nigerian youth, while on his visit to Morocco, as a poorly packaged deception. The party says it was a desperate after-thought, aimed at calming the storm created when Buhari called the youth "lazy and lovers of freebies".

President Muhammadu Buhari and King Mohammed VI.

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