APC chieftain Joe Igbokwe has lashed out at Nigerians who attacked First Lady Remi Tinubu over her advice encouraging citizens to consider small-scale businesses like selling akara, roasted corn, and kuli-kuli.
Remi Tinubu made the remarks on Wednesday while addressing journalists after the second-quarter meeting of the Renewed Hope Initiative with wives of state governors at the State House in Abuja.
Speaking on the initiative’s activities, the First Lady said the programme had been disbursing grants — not loans — to vulnerable Nigerians to help them start businesses and improve their livelihoods.
“We’re trying to give hope, and to start Akara business doesn’t take a lot of money. To start roasting corn, or somebody even said kuli kuli doesn’t take much. We didn’t give them a loan; we gave it to them as a grant. So we’ve encouraged Nigerians as best as we could. What is within our hands, I have given, and I keep giving,” she said.
Her comments, however, sparked widespread outrage on social media, with many Nigerians describing the advice as tone-deaf and insulting.
Igbokwe fired back on Saturday via his Facebook page, slamming critics for turning what he described as sincere counsel into an opportunity to heap abuse on the First Lady.
“This generation frightens me to the marrows. An honest advice HE Oluremi Tinubu gave to young Nigerians on how to help themselves has become a tool to abuse and to pour invectives,” he wrote.
“Social Media has become a tool to unleash scurrilous drivels even when the truth is spoken. We will learn las las. See the empty heads and headless mobs dancing naked in the public space left and right. Awon werey everywhere. Shame has enveloped me,” Igbokwe added.
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