Nigeria's former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, who is also running for president for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lambasted Buhari. Buhari, who declared earlier in April he is seeking re-election in 2019, made the remark on Wednesday at a business conference in London. 'LAZY'"A lot of them haven't been to school and they are claiming, you know, that Nigeria has been an oil producing country therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, health care, education, free," said Buhari. Nigeria's former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, who is also running for president for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lambasted Buhari. Nigeria's combined youth unemployment and underemployment rate hovered around 50 percent in late 2017 following the country's worst economic recession in 25 years.

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2018 04:41 UTC