COVID-19: FG regrets begging US billionaire for ventilators, deletes tweet

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The ministry also issued a statement apologising to Nigerians for the error.

The Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the minister, Yunusa Abdullahi, said in a statement that the tweet was not done with the permission of the minister.

However, the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, who also appealed to Musk for assistance, refused to delete his tweet and even re-tweeted similar pleas. The business tycoon, who is also the founder and Chief Engineer, SpaceX, had tweeted on Thursday that his firm had extra ventilators that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in America.

 

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They're still begging China for loan.. beggars

That is why those whites call Nigerians beggars

This people leading us are national disasters. They are the main problem of this country....they can't take us to anywhere...As great as Nigeria as useless our LEADERS. AWON WEERE

This (corn-tree) country as a (hole) whole...

🤣 how can you beg for ventilators, when you have the money to buy ventilators. !!! Nigeria wake up please.

This Govt should be ashamed of themselves begging US billionaire after the huge donation from out patriotic Nigerians.

The ventilator are not meant to be stored in a warehouse.. o por!😂

Disgraceful ppl

Hahahahhaa 😂😂😂😂

Nobody noticed the reply. 'The requirement is that the Vents are needed immediately for patients, not stored in warehouse'. Which means he knew they won't put it out for patients, they will keep it in their warehouse.

Even of they give us....we go re-sell am las las...👩🏼‍🦯👩🏼‍🦯👩🏼‍🦯

Disgraceful Act by the largest black democratic republic

Ah GOD! can any swiss citizen be kind enough to exchange country and citizenship with me?😔

What do u expect from people who were born to born and raised to be beggars, this are the same people leading Nigeria.....tufiakwa chinekenna ekwe kwala nye-ojo!

I seriously don't know why NigeriaGov like embarrassing herself. You have renowned car manufacturers like innosonvehicles etc that can easily manufacture these ventilators but rather busy begging people that need it more than us. Shame. MBuhari DrEOEhanire Chikwe_I NCDCgov

Mxm... they never start....

Big shame

Abeg where are the billion the government collected

Wait a minute, who is FG ❓why using FG to impersonate this man❓mobilepunch

FG disappointed me for deleting the tweet and for asking for forgiveness. I bet it, you've done well asking for aids just for the sake of winning the war and saving your citizens. It is a genuine empathised move for Nigerians. If you loose the war, Nigerians would still talk.

There are more honourable way to do this. But what do I know😏

How on earth can a Country that can afford 2020 Toyota Camry for Over 320 legislators be begging for Ventilators?!!!

What a failed country with despicable, failed leaders!!

We forced them to delete the tweet, too much insult was on them

How can a whole Nigeria 🇳🇬 the Giant of Africa be begging a private citizen of another country for Ventilators... While paying our Senators almost $450,000 annually. It is absurd!

Are you guys surprised? They wouldn't even get a,b,c right! Shame on the presidency of this nation

Beggers United

Who exactly is this federal government 🤔

I tire 4 dis Nigeria ar dey not ashame

Where are those folks who lauded the bambiala tweet? Goons... Buhari & co would always allow them defend them and show their foolly, then, heed to the voice of 'wailers'.

Na u know, even the more developed countries are begging for help.This is not sometin u shy about. If u are hit u are don for. Ask Italy, Spain , Germany even US u pple always use to rate ur country that has never been seen a better President like dis. Pls turn over

So we have a clueless government that can not coordinate the activities of her ministries.

Lmao. The internet does not forget.

Nigeria 🇳🇬 is Blessed, But has leaders who are more deadly 💀 than CoVID19.

Una still get pride?

Deleting the tweet makes it ridiculous. 65 percent of this country is a joke!

I honestly don't see anything wrong with asking for help from anyone/organization that could help at this difficult season. We are just unfortunate to have a government that strives in denial.

If they really mean that the tweet was u authorized, then the hander of the account should fired by now. For Bashir, he did that with his personal account, not nothing much for him. We can't also be object of ridicule in the faces of the world

Na that regret go kill them,,,, after wasting billions on ride... Awon weeeere

E pa oboro o Mo🤣🤣🤣

Oh God 😂😂😂

Stupid government, go and buy ventilator with the money you people have stolen from the national treasury

TBH there is nothing wrong with begging. These are unprecedented times Some countries that have more purchasing power than the whole continent can't seem to find ventilators on the market

We have Nigerian billionaires who have donated a large of money. Fucking is it dick heads. Some of you can sponsor all the ventilators we need without been assisted by any body. You will die with all that money. When the masses becomes more inffect it will be a fight of death

I personally don’t see anything wrong with soliciting for a few extra ventilators.. even if Nigeria has the capacity to get 10k ventilators, it’s better to have 10.2k or 10.3k🤷🏾‍♂️

If it had gone through, they would have claimed the monies donated by individuals and organizations was used to purchase the ventilators.

RealOlaudah Almajiris everywhere. Even the FG has turned beggar. How then do we want to control begging.

RealOlaudah Shameless administration

Lol 😂😂😂 punch actually knows how to throw lots of punches 🤜

Why regret? The FG is a very big disgrace to Nigeria and Africa at large. Mofos gat no shame .

FGN shame

I pray non of us get the virus when it will het to the point when we need ventilators bcos by then we will not be concerned whether we begged or bought the ventilators

josteez_ How do I explain this to my unborn kids? 😩😭😭

See them Coperate beggers

Wonder shall never end

Instead if using recovered looted funds, dey went disgracing themselves out there. So if d govt begs too, y is she raising eyebrows street beggars? Begging is begging n there is no dignity in d is very shameful.dey r saving d moni 4 election campaigns

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Its a shame they cant stand by their tweet.. for me they have done nothing wrong in that tweet. This problem is huge.. i hope we dont get to that point we turn to bash them for not standing by their tweet and get ventilators...🤧🤧

Then how did the unauthorised person get the tweeter handle of a whole govt account? Nigeria is run by unauthorised people .

Mumu country

...this headline sha

There is no crime in begging for what we need

Useless government 😆 😆

😂 stupid bunch

What a shame double measure

Why delete, we've all seen it, the wind has blown and we can see everything.

This caption eh😂💀

I keep asking myself, how the hell do we get lunatics as leaders in this country

Awon oponu gbogbo.. Nonsense

No thinking caps in this govt. innosonvehicles has said they can make ventilators n other health equipment, instead of funding them they're begging an individual . I dey shame on una behalf. Ndi Ala

It was good requesting for the Ventilators. They regret because if the health sector was really funded and working as it should just like what we have in Germany/USA the request would have been like adding a beautiful painting to a well furnished apartment.

Shame shame shame...that’s so heartbreaking and painful but it’s well we r in Nigeria

You guys should check out this ventilator my friend has been working on...it is amazing

So why are they regretting it now

Shame on this government

Naija people! chill o, no shame in asking for aid. They made mistake going about it this way. They apologised so end of story. Punch u sef, ur own too much.

Scizo4real Buhari has graduated fully to a mega Int'l embarrassment.

When innoson offered to produce ventilators. Who the fuck is running this country ?

Why delete it... We are done reading it all. When I was in kindergarten, akara school... When a someone who ought to know and lead the way messes up, we are asked to shame him/her or do the boooooooooooooo thing. I'm so ashamed. With the zillions Naija get. Chaiye

It's too late FG...your begging pattern have been revealed.

No, you shouldn't have deleted the tweet. Washing your dirty linen in public..

My advise: sell all the newly delivered SUV cars to National Assembly and by as many Vents as required.

A disgraceful disgrace for an already disgraced govt. Smh

Your level of journalism is just too poor I keep repeating it. Even your cartoon captions too. Poor

Where are the billions donated? They are a disgrace to this lovely nation

We’re not even begging US governments, we’re begging individuals when our leaders are also billionaires. How these idiots Dey take reach post self?! Tf! Are they dumb to stupor!

ChidiNdumnego your people are confused o!

Wondafu🤣

Shey dem dey pick ventilator from guter abi Nigeria government think say na for free or what... This Govt is stupid... Ventilator cost so much money... Even US don't have that much ventilators

Punch you and you crazy headlines to just make people angry on another please guys confirm what you read because news is not a legit and trustworthy news sources.

That was fast.

Now they are asking the same Electric car billionaire manufacturer for GIVEAWAY

What a shame.

See cruise. A whole country clowning

I honestly don't see anything wrong with begging for ventilators

Homeleopard God bless 'NIGERIA' LMAO

Naso most of us dey feel when Donjazzy ignore out tweets.

Abdulhamied_AA The caption 😂😂

Niyi__ Mubzill_11

dead

Why make an unfortunate situation worse? is there anything this FGN does right?

🤡

I thought they don't have shame. innosonvehicles volunteered to produce the ventilators, but this inept Federal Government ignored him. Now you are shamelessly begging a foreigner for same items.

Lobatan! In a country where Billions are spent on trivial things during a crisis, where transparency has gone to the dogs ... they dared ... and are blaming their thoughtlessness on processes! Only sad thing is the person who will lose his/her job for this tweet!

They ought to be ashamed of themselves begging for ventilators from an individual while they are taking delivery of brand news cars up and down..smh..that tweet lives on as a memorial to show our children yet unborn the kind of irresponsible government we hand in a time like this

It's obvious that the Nigerian government has no shame

sigh*

They are pathetic

Ikechukk Punch and bad mouth.😂😂😁

What’s wrong in begging? You will rather have body bags than beg?

See if there was cure for dis corona virus dem 4 no dey shake like this like old 3310 Nokia phone they would hv left all of us to our faith but d way God does his things he made sure dat d proud is been humble like Nebuchadnezzar Julius berger Nigeria government shameless chai

Let's just hope to contain this doom or else whoever had the chance to make this country work & did nothing other than steal will die regretting his stupidity. Just tell me where God didn't bless this country? He gave us everything but we used our greed to destroy our own country

Beggi beggi people what happened to the donations that were made. The coys should have just bought the ventilators and beds themselves and given it to the fmoh

emmaikumeh Better. This is the time we ought to look inwards and appreciate what we have. NGRPresident MBuhari ProfOsinbajo. Get Innoson to start the mass production of ventilators, empower our textile industry to start production of Face masks and PPE's.

No harm in begging sha

All of you are mad in country....bigger oshi....no shame, no integrity.......ProfOsinbajo and are aware of all these happening sir?

Nothing wrong with begging to save your citizens lives. Life comes first

We are in a jungle , not a country pitiful 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Their day just break. Nonsense!

Nonsense

It's a shame

The ventilators are not meant to be stored in a warehouse , see finishing.

Wen beg without thinking

I don't see anything wrong 8n begging for anything that will help Nigeria through this perilous times. Deleting the Tweet bcos it was not with express permission of the Minister is understandable but I am with BashirAhmaad on this one Even world powers are soliciting for help

elonmusk is not stupid. Asking for help from one of the US key industrialist without going through proper channel is wrong. Before now there was no business deal with him or Tesla

The money national assembly wanted to use to renovate the house of assembly, is enough to buy thousands of ventilators

Where are those defenders of the universe again? Yen, yen, yen...'Desperate time needs desperate action' Smh!

Bashir is shameless... He didn't know the right protocol to follow.

_blackteddy Reel_bizzle

This Sinzu Government Is Just A Disgrace To Humanity🚶🏼🚶🏼🚶🏼🚶🏼

This wah greed can do......blessings in disguise....... covid19 has expose this govt

Because it is a shame after collecting billions of dollars from oil revenues.

Why cant they give inoson all the billions they collect to help them build ventilator? Shame on them

This government though, this is national disgrace.

Clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Almajiri mentality is in their blood

BashirAhmaad how can you beg elonmusk you have never patronized for ventilators ?

Agen_zy Awon beggi beggi , una get money still dey do beggi beggi shioorrrrrrrr

E maulah mode activated by fG

Lol

Why,if you don't have abeg beg in peace,if you regret that,I will beg on your behalf 🙆🙆🙆

Embarrassing.

Why beg can they not buy.They have a whole of funds to do that

Highest level of low 😕

This govt is as well as scrab value

Lmaooooo

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