President Buhari: I Feel Pity For Lai Mohammed

President Muhammadu Buhari says he feels pity for minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, for having the responsibility of explaining all his actions and his inaction to Nigerians.

Speaking on Monday when he hosted state house correspondents at the presidential villa in Abuja, Buhari said he and his cabinet members have been doing their best to deliver the change which the APC had promised Nigerians during the 2015 electioneering campaign.

The president described his ministers as hardworking, saying “One of the men I pity is Lai Mohammed. Everyday he is on TV explaining our performance or lack of it.”

He said his ministers toil day and night to ensure that his administration succeeds. “The ministers sit down day and night to work. Some of them have literarily lost weight because they were sleeping less and eating less (while working on the budget). They were working on every kobo to be spent.

“We recently just found out that we are poor because we don’t have anything to fall back to. This is the condition we found ourselves and this change mantra had to go through hell up till yesterday.

“And for you to talk to whoever came to visit us throughout that year, I wonder how each of your diaries would be, because people were expecting this change mantra in their own way.

“How do you define change? Luckily our party identified three major items, security, economy and corruption... I think we will recover by the fourth quarter of the year.”