The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar has called on President Bola Tinubu-led government to show a clear direction of its policy projections.
While advising the FG to desist from the subsisting behaviour of groping in the dark in 2024, Atiku lamented the current intensity of the trying times many families and businesses are going through.
Atiku posited that a completely different pathway could have been taken had the government been smarter with their policy prescriptions.
Atiku who made this known in his 2024 New Year Message, said time and season was created to take stock of realities and effect necessary amends.
The former Nigeria Vice-President expressed gratitude to God, even as he welcomed Nigerians to the new year
Atiku, admitted that the past year was challenging, noting that lessons learnt are what should prepare Nigerians for the future.
In his words:
“The rising cost of food items, goods and services, the malfunction in our national economy and the degenerating state of our national and community security are all existential challenges that we have to face squarely in the New Year.
“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.
“The government must 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,” he said.
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