Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the Federal Authorities to deal with the financial hardship that Nigerians are going by in 2024.

Atiku made the decision in his 2024 New 12 months message to the nation.

Within the assertion launched on Sunday, Atiku supplied “adulation to God and a coronary heart filled with gratitude” as Nigerians enter the brand new yr.

He, nevertheless, acknowledged that 2023 was “positively a difficult yr” with vital classes for the long run.

“The rising price of meals objects, items and providers, the malfunction in our nationwide financial system and the degenerating state of our nationwide and group safety are all existential challenges that we’ve got to face squarely within the New 12 months,” Atiku mentioned.

He criticised the federal government’s “coverage prescriptions,” stating, “Definitely, many households and companies already know the depth of the attempting instances that we’re at the moment going by – although we might have taken a totally totally different pathway, had the federal government been smarter.”

Atiku referred to as for a “well-thought imaginative and prescient of Nationwide Planning that can intentionally make the widespread folks of Nigeria the centrepiece of our growth.”

“The 12 months 2024 continues to be new on its canvas, and so there’s ample time for the present authorities to champion a pathway to addressing the acute hardship that Nigerians are going by,” he continued.

He urged the federal government to “present a transparent path of its coverage projections and desist from the subsisting behaviour of groping in the dead of night.”

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