2020 is the time to work for a better future - Atiku

2020 is the time to work for a better future - Atiku

- Atiku has called on Nigerians to work for a better future in 2020

- The former VP said new year requires everybody to stay together more than ever before to tackle the common enemy of insecurity

- However, he slammed those saying the year 2019 was a successful year for Nigerians

Former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election Atiku Abubakar in his new year message has told Nigerians that the year 2020 is a time to work for the better future of the country.

According to him, the symbolic new year requires everybody to stay together more than ever before to tackle the common enemy of insecurity.

Going further, Atiku slammed those saying the year 2019 was a successful year for Nigerians.

He said the bitter truth is that Nigeria is still in the throes of economic instability, with more people losing jobs.

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"The coming of the New Year 2020 is symbolic in many ways. First, it heralds a brand new decade. Secondly, and probably more important, is that this New Year will require us all to stay together more than ever before to take on, head front, the common enemy of insecurity that challenge our everyday lives as Nigerians.

"I do not share the sentiment when some people claim that the outgone 2019 was a successful year for Nigerians. Such sentiments are reductionist and do the harm of making us have a false sense of victory.

"The bitter truth is that Nigeria is still in the throes of economic instability, with more people losing jobs and the attendant outcome of more children being out of school and more families having a hard time in accessing basic needs of life," he said.

Going further, he said Nigerians must stay together to challenge poverty. According to him, the problems of extreme poverty and scant investments in education play huge roles in fueling the problems of violent extremism.

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"We must challenge the inadequacies that made us become the global headquarters of extreme poverty; much as we must work hard and fast enough to eliminate the scourge of out-of-school children in the country.

"The problems of extreme poverty and scant investments in education play huge roles in fueling the problems of violent extremism that we spent the past decade contending with."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari declared 2019 as a very successful year for Nigeria.

The president said this when residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, led by Honorable Minister of Federal Capital Territory paid him a Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

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