My Mother Sold Akara And My Father Was A Farmer, The First Lady’s Advice Is Genuine, Everyone Won’t Be Bankers — Min. For Works, David Umahi Defends Remi Tinubu

My Mother Sold Akara And My Father Was A Farmer, The First Lady’s Advice Is Genuine, Everyone Won’t Be Bankers — Min. For Works, David Umahi Defends Remi Tinubu

Minister of Works, David Umahi, has defended First Lady Oluremi Tinubu over recent criticism of her comments encouraging young Nigerians to embrace hard work and vocational skills, insisting that her advice was sincere and should not be ridiculed.

Speaking at a public event, Umahi said Nigerians should stop making “joke of every genuine advice,” stressing that every citizen must contribute meaningfully to national development.

“When our First Lady, our Mother of the Nation, was trying to encourage the youths, we must change our work attitude. Everybody must be working, like in China. To take our country, everybody must be working. Everybody must have something to do,” he said.

Drawing from his personal background, the minister noted that humble beginnings should not be viewed as a limitation.

“My mother was selling akara. My mother was a farmer. My father was a farmer. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that having used that to train me, I will continue to farm at their scale, I will continue to sell akara at their scale. Why do we make joke of every genuine advice? Will everybody be a banker at the same time? So, let us be serious, for once.”

Umahi also dismissed claims by Arise Television presenter Rufai Oseni that the ongoing Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway contributed to flooding in Lagos.

Addressing the journalist directly, he said, “Leave this profession for us. We, the professors of infrastructure, leave it for us.”

Source: Instablog

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