Nigeria @ 65: Atiku Hails Nigerians’ Resilience Amid ‘Hardship’

As Nigeria marks its 65th independency day connected Wednesday, October 1, 2025, Opposition person and erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar has praised the resilience of Nigerians successful the look of what helium called worsening economical hardship and insecurity, portion accusing the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led medication of abandoning citizens to their fate.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday by his media aide, Paul Ibe, Atiku lamented that Nigerians continued to grapple with harsh realities specified arsenic rising nutrient scarcity, wide unemployment, and increasing insecurity.

“Nigerians are enduring excruciating pains from raging insecurity, rising nutrient scarcity, wide unemployment, and a unsafe clime of hopelessness, each compounded by the insensitivity of the APC-led administration,” helium said.

Atiku described the concern arsenic tragic, noting that millions of citizens person been reduced to “refugees and beggars successful their fatherland” contempt Nigeria’s abundant quality and earthy resources.

“Every liable authorities holds the payment and information of its citizens arsenic supreme. But what we person contiguous is an medication that has abandoned its people. Hunger is sidesplitting Nigerians, bandits are massacring communities, yet President Tinubu and his furniture basal by, unmoved and uncaring,” helium added.

The erstwhile vice president, who was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) statesmanlike campaigner successful the 2023 wide election, urged Nigerians not to suffer faith, stressing that the antiauthoritarian process provides an accidental for change.

“The quality of ideology lies successful the powerfulness of the ballot. Oppressed and battered arsenic our radical whitethorn consciousness today, they volition person the accidental to expanse distant this inept authorities astatine the adjacent polls. That is the powerfulness nary cabal tin instrumentality distant from the people,” Atiku stated.

He further argued that Nigeria’s dilatory advancement implicit the decades is simply a nonstop effect of mediocre enactment and wasteful governance.

“At 65, Nigeria remains a elephantine moving painfully dilatory connected the feet of clay, a nonstop effect of decades of mediocre enactment and wasteful governance,” helium said.

Nevertheless, Atiku maintained that with the close leadership, the state tin inactive emergence supra its challenges and reclaim its rightful spot among the comity of nations.

“With the close leadership, the federation tin flooded years of failed governance and reclaim its rightful presumption among the assemblage of nations,” helium assured.

Atiku concluded by extending his champion wishes to Nigerians, saying, “He wishes Nigerians a blessed 65th Independence Day anniversary celebration.”