Minister of Works, David Umahi, has defended First Lady Oluremi Tinubu’s recent remarks urging Nigerian youths to embrace vocational skills, despite widespread criticism.
Speaking at a public event, Umahi revealed that his mother sold beans pudding (akara) and his father was a farmer, stressing that hard work and vocational trades should not be ridiculed.
Mrs. Tinubu had encouraged young Nigerians to consider roasting corn or selling akara as honest means of livelihood, a comment that sparked backlash on social media.
Umahi, however, insisted the First Lady’s advice was sincere:“My mother was selling akara. 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 or 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.”
He added that every citizen
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