You can’t reduce Nigerian youths to taxi drivers – Atiku’s aide tackles Wike

You can’t reduce Nigerian youths to taxi drivers – Atiku’s aide tackles Wike

 Paul Ibe, the Media Adviser to former Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, presidential Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned the Minister of the
Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike against reducing youths in Abuja to
taxi drivers.

 

Ibe said most youths engage in taxi business due to the
unconducive economic environment and need to survive.

 

He was reacting to a remark by Wike on Thursday while giving
out cars to some youths in the FCT to use for commercial driving.

 

In his speech, the minister encouraged the beneficiaries not
to be ashamed that they are being empowered to be taxi drivers, saying that
many Nigerians who reject taxi driving jobs at home gladly embrace such when
they travel abroad.

 

Posting on X, Ibe wrote: “This is a big fat lie. First off,
Nigerian youths did not create this economic situation that continues to serve
them the wrong end of the stick.

 

“Megalomaniacs did and have continued to deny them
opportunities through their trial-and-error policies.

 

“We know lots of youths who have taken to making a living of
driving taxis be they green taxis (or any other colour depending on what part
of the country they operate in, @Uber or @boltapp.

 

“By the way, is this what you want to reduce our youths to:
driving taxis? Nigerian youths are better than that. They’ve proven time and
time again that their limitations are the megalomaniacs that continue to
mortgage their destiny.”

Source: You can’t reduce Nigerian youths to taxi drivers – Atiku’s aide tackles Wike

 - NigerianEye

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