Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the Federal Authorities to handle the financial hardships Nigerians are going by in 2024.
Atiku made this name in his 2024 New Yr message to the nation.
Within the assertion launched on Sunday, Atiku supplied “worship to God and a coronary heart filled with gratitude” as Nigerians enter the brand new yr.
Nonetheless, he acknowledged that 2023 was “positively a difficult yr” with vital classes for the long run.
“The rising price of meals merchandise, items and providers, the disruption in our nationwide financial system and the degenerating state of our nationwide and neighborhood safety are all existential challenges that we should confront within the new yr,” Atiku mentioned.
Criticizing the federal government's “coverage prescriptions”, he mentioned: “Actually, many households and companies already know the depth of the tough instances we’re at the moment experiencing – though we may have taken a really totally different path if the federal government had been smarter.”
Atiku known as for a “well-thought-out imaginative and prescient of nationwide planning that may purposefully place the unusual individuals of Nigeria on the middle of our improvement.”
“The yr 2024 continues to be contemporary on the canvas, and thus, there may be ample time for the present administration to advocate for a pathway to handle the acute hardships that Nigerians are going by,” he continued.
He urged the federal government to “present clear route in its coverage projections and desist from the continued conduct of groping at midnight.”
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