An outpouring of emotions by Nigerians has occurred following a report by Financial Times that US President Donald Trump referred to Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari as “lifeless”.
The controversial US President was quoted as saying this when the duo met in the White House last April.
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According to comments monitored on social media by our reporter, many Nigerians supported President Trump’s views on the 76-year-old Buhari, with many supporters blaming the Nigerian presidency for failing to disclose the nature of the president’s illness that has seen him visit London regularly since assuming office in 2015.
Read reactions below:
https://twitter.com/SKSolaKuti/status/1034153707741609988
Buhari went abroad to call us criminals and lazy. So, if Trump calls him lifeless, nothing spoil.
— Jamal (@JajaPhD) August 27, 2018
So @realDonaldTrump called Nigeria’s President @MBuhari “a lifeless person” and said “I don’t want to meet him again”! This is the same person @OfficialAPCNg is promoting for a 2nd term? No wonder our economy is so lifeless that 10 million Nigerians lost their jobs! #RenosNuggets
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) August 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/UNCLE_AJALA/status/1034052836991090688
When d Economist called GEJ an "ineffectual buffoon," Buharists cheered. When Buhari's social media aide fabricated a fake, hilariously error-ridden quote of Trump praising Buhari's "integrity," Buharists cheered & even started calling Trump "Baba."😂Now he says PMB is lifeless..
— Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D (@farooqkperogi) August 27, 2018
Trump reportedly called Buhari “lifeless”. Again, perhaps if Aso Rock was more forthcoming about the nature of his illness (and the medical prognosis) there’d be more understanding https://t.co/7wemqaeNuw
— Phil Hazlewood (@philhazlewood) August 27, 2018
Man U 0 – 3 Tottenham
That Harry Kane's goal Trumps everything
De Gea just stood LIFELESS
Apparently, the so called 'SPECIAL ONE' will leave office this 2019 season.
— Ebube The Statesman (@akaebube) August 27, 2018
After the bogus, ‘’first African leader to meet the U.S president’’, same U.S president didn’t even rate your African leader. Hé didnt even only disrespect him, he totally annihilated his existence – not even deserving to be seen as a human being. He called him lifeless.
— Royalty (@royaltyuso) August 27, 2018
This is a lifeless man. pic.twitter.com/4fteG1ctqF
— PH MADE ALPHA MALE (@ZinaSpeaks) August 27, 2018
Those who called Jonathan clueless are today Lifeless. Life is indeed funny. Everyone surely has a date!
— Jackson Ude (@jacksonpbn) August 27, 2018
3 weeks ago, a group of Nigerian schoolgirls won Gold at the World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley of California. Till today, Nigeria’s President @MBuhari has not acknowledged this rare and praiseworthy feat, yet you are angry Trump called him ‘lifeless’! #RenosDarts pic.twitter.com/TIvHRTVhUL
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) August 27, 2018
Folks asking me to do a thread on the chances of the PDP aspirants. Nope!We don’t wash our linen in public.Can’t come & be exposing D strategy we will use to chase out the “lifeless” one.“Hey Doc,shey u said we should not call him that?”I said outsiders should not. Na our patent.
— Mazi Gburugburu (@Mazigburugburu1) August 28, 2018
President Buhari to Nigerians: Lazy
President Trump to Buhari: Lifeless
Nigerians to Trump: pic.twitter.com/vpzM5yB0dl
— Oba Of Nigeria (@UrbanCulture16) August 27, 2018
Every US President has access to high-level, top-secret, intelligence reports on major situations around the world. Rather than laugh at @realDonaldTrump's calling of President Buhari "lifeless", we should ask if there's something he knows that the citizens of Nigeria don't. pic.twitter.com/TYeHzaaP6k
— Henry Shield (@henryshield) August 27, 2018