Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has congratulated Nigerians for witnessing the end of 2023 in spite of several difficulties.
Atiku, in a statement he personally signed , said 2023 was particularly challenging, though government could have taken necessary steps to make things better.
In the New Year message, the former Vice-President noted: “The past year was definitely a challenging year, but the lessons that we took away from it are what should prepare us for the future that the New Year holds.
“It is my belief that one of the reasons the Almighty created time and season is for us to take stock of our realities and effect necessary amends.”
Alhaji Atiku while acknowledging the high cost of living added that the nation’s problems should be resolved in the coming 2024
“Certainly, many families and businesses already know the intensity of the trying times that we are currently going through – though we could have taken a completely different pathway, had the government been smarter with their policy prescriptions.
“While many companies have closed their operations in Nigeria and moved their enterprise elsewhere with clearer policies and visions, the situation of life for Nigerians keeps getting direr.
“To walk back from these throes of adversities will require a well-thought vision of National Planning that will deliberately make the common people of Nigeria the centrepiece of our development.
“The Year 2024 is still new on its canvas; and so, there is ample time for the current government to champion a pathway to addressing the acute hardship that Nigerians are going through.”
He reminded the Federal Government on the need to show a clear direction of its policy projections and desist from the subsisting behaviour of groping in the dark.
“While I congratulate all Nigerians for witnessing this New Year, I also wish to call on everyone to double our efforts to put our respective families and businesses in good shape.
“It is with great adulation to God and a heart full of gratitude that I join other patriots to welcome Nigerians to the New Year 2024,” Atiku added.
