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Atiku Abubakar's New Year Message To Nigerians

Dear Fellow Nigerians,

I extend my compliments of the season as we welcome the New Year, 2026.

For millions of long-suffering Nigerians, the only consolation is that 2025, one of the most punishing years in our recent history, has come to an end. It was a year defined by economic suffocation, political recklessness, and governance without empathy under the All Progressives Congress (@OfficialAPCNg) administration.

The past year exposed, in stark terms, the incompetence and policy bankruptcy of President Bola Tinubu. Governing for months without a functional budget, the administration relied on propaganda while borrowing recklessly, pushing the nation to the brink of economic collapse.

Nothing better captures the decay of this government than the scandal of a forged tax law, shamelessly branded a “reform.” Even more disturbing was the President’s refusal to allow due legislative and legal processes to address what is clearly a criminal act.

A government that begins reform with forgery cannot end with prosperity.

In the same year, Nigeria’s democratic foundations were deliberately weakened, as the APC worked systematically to deform our multiparty democracy into a de facto one-party state through coercion, intimidation, and state capture.

While drowning the nation in debt, the government falsely claimed to have met revenue targets.

Meanwhile, insecurity worsened dramatically. Kidnappings, abductions, and violent crimes surged, affecting citizens young and old alike.

Lives were lost, livelihoods destroyed, and communities terrorized, while government assurances rang hollow.

The administration spoke endlessly of economic recovery, yet unemployment, underemployment, labour unrest, and collapsing small businesses defined the year. Industries shut down. Workers were sent home. Hunger spread. Suffering became normalized.

Despite these failures, compounded by the appointment of undistinguished and unfit individuals to represent Nigeria abroad, the country survived, not because of government competence, but because of the resilience of its people.

I urge Nigerians to remain steadfast in the face of these hardships. This is one of the most painful New Year messages I have ever written, fully aware of the despair confronting millions due to the callous and soulless policies of the Tinubu-led APC government.

Citizens are repeatedly told to “make sacrifices.” Sacrifice is patriotic—but it becomes cruel when demanded by leaders who live extravagantly, insulated from the suffering of the people. Leadership without shared pain is not leadership; it is exploitation.

Small businesses, the backbone of job creation, are collapsing. Workers are losing jobs. Yet those in power prioritize comfort over conscience. This contradicts every principle of democratic governance.

The arrogance of this administration is unprecedented. Its contempt for public opinion, its hostility to criticism, and its willingness to punish Nigerians through bad policies reveal a government fundamentally hostile to the people.

Never in our recent history have we seen an administration so openly dismissive of public sentiment, so casual in breaking laws, and so reckless with democratic norms.

A government capable of forging or tampering with laws cannot be trusted to conduct free and fair elections in 2027.

Still, we must not surrender to despair. These hardships must become the fuel for national awakening. Democracy gives the people the power to change a failing government, peacefully and decisively, through the ballot.

Do not allow religion or ethnicity to divide you. Division only serves those who benefit from your suffering. Unity is the path to rescue.

The so-called anti-corruption crusade of this government is a facade; selective, vindictive, and politically motivated. It has become a tool for persecuting opposition figures rather than cleansing the system.

Fighting corruption is essential, but when agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are weaponized against opponents while allies enjoy immunity, justice is mocked. Institutions must act without fear or favour.

Governments come and go; history remains.

I therefore call on all patriotic Nigerians to engage, mobilize, persuade, and organize. Prepare to vote, and to defend your votes in 2027.

Let us vote out hunger, insecurity, unemployment, dishonesty, corruption, abductions, lies, and propaganda.

Nigeria deserves better. Nigerians deserve dignity.

2026 is the year to till the soil. 2027 is the year of harvest. It is too late to turn back. Let us rise, organize, and reclaim our country. —AA

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Atiku don forget say he no win election. Lol.

Still wants his own share.

Can we pls stop recycling ♻️ all this old cargos ,including atiku and Peter obi.

Why can't a 35yrs or most 45yrs old rule this country??

Must it be heartless dying men like Adams oshomole,wike , yari and Bala Muhammad ?

Atiku don tire to run commentary.

HgAkpobomeEr:
Atiku don tire to run commentary.

ebukal67x:
Atiku don forget say he no win election. Lol.

Seun, Nlfpmod. The bots are back.

Waziri 1

Na man you be

Atiku should stop being petty.

He should focus on how to win the next election instead of attacking the sitting president unnecessarily

ATiku
The Fulani terrorist apologist

This idi0t can't just wish Nigerians a happy new year message without throwing a jab at his nightmare. Use1ess old man

This incoming, H.E. Atiku, President of Nigeria.

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Thank Atiku..we are waiting for Obi's message..

Nigeria have one president and two other presidents who will often act as the president all the time.

Happy new prosperous year to everyone,

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Why will some believe this man that posted a condemnation and deleted it

I voted Atiku in 2019 and 2023.

But God forbid I ever vote in a Nigerian election.

The event of the last two years has made me realise that we are just electoral tools in the hands of these men

You guys should go and vote, anything you give us, we will enjoy it together.

For me? Not ever again in this life

Nice one from my leader. The only one with manifesto to lead Nigeria

lazkizz:
Still wants his own share.

Can we pls stop recycling ♻️ all this old cargos ,including atiku and Peter obi.

Why can't a 35yrs or most 45yrs old rule this country??

Must it be heartless dying men like Adams oshomole,wike , yari and Bala Muhammad ?

Who's stopping you from contesting?

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This post has earlier been on the FP. You may have to get the mods to do the needful.

iwaeda:
This incoming, H.E. Atiku, President of Nigeria.

perpetual incoming president,you mean?

APC and Tinubu must go... Bunch of thieves and useless set of looters... They should go to grave with all the stolen money. Heartless people

Always quick to call out suffering Nigerians as though there haven't been suffering Nigerians from time, even when you were jointly at the helm of affairs.

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Very stupid man. You are talking about insecurity. But trump striked terrorists in sokoto. We no hear anything from you. You want it to continue so you will use it for political gains. Me and my household will never vote you. If you like carry Pope as Ex.

If you like no strategize well....allow selfishness make e becloud you...the story will remain the same.

The saddest thing about this Atikus new year message is everything he said about Tunibus government is gospel truth. But there is always light at the end of the tunnel. History will never forget . We urge our political leaders to always put at the forefront of their minds that nothing last forever and money or power acquired in a illegitimate and cruel manner will never last. God is with the Nigerian ppl.

Make Dem dey play. Whether they like it or not. Tinubu must continue the devil's work. Nigerians must suffer. My vote is for tinubu cum 2027. On your Mandate we must stand. Atiku, nothing for you.

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Atiku just shut up - Perhaps if these GenZs does not know what happened during you an your boss's tenure (Obasanjo) let me remind you - Your tenure gave birth to arms conflict in Nigeria - witnessed the highest form of ethnic cleansing - Your boss wiped out a whole villa in Odi.....arms militia such as Egbesu, IYF, bakassi, Odua were all on rampage, beheading and maiming people freely in the name of cleaning their regions. The Ijaw youths kidnapped whites and expatriates, maimed many, ethnic clashes that claimed several lives, unresolved several political killings, high profiled military cleansing, a whole CJN was maimed, many plane crashes, Abuja Lagos route was unmotorable, armed robbery attacks at nights, ritual killings went record high etc.
I want you to mention one incorrect statements or event above.

Omo, na new year message be this? Political desperation fit wound people for we country oh.

Atiku, is this message from you or your ghostwriter?

You sound so desperate.

lazkizz:
Still wants his own share.

Can we pls stop recycling ♻️ all this old cargos ,including atiku and Peter obi.

Why can't a 35yrs or most 45yrs old rule this country??

Must it be heartless dying men like Adams oshomole,wike , yari and Bala Muhammad ?

How old is Trump that is ruling vibrant America and helping Tinubu kill Muslim terrorists who are committing genocide against Christians, while also killing innocent northerners as collateral damage

odejimioflagos:
Atiku, is this message from you or your ghostwriter?

You sound so desperate.

Why would any patriotic Nigerian not be desperate to get us out of this disaster by All Promises Cancelled, APC that has already lasted a decade?

Why would any Nigerian not be desperate to work on returning us to the widespread prosperity of PDP deregulation and privatisation policies that we had for 16 years before Tinubu fraudulently passed his expired Buhari off as APC change messiah

Atiku should eat his Messages,for what NIGERIANS wants from him is to Return the Resources he Cornered from Nigeria,when he was at the helm of Affairs as in Privatisation Committee.
He Should tell us- If OBJ BOOK ' My Watch' is Not True!
Nonsensical People Are Everywhere!

I would prefer Tinubu to continue in office than to allow another Fulani man to enter Aso Rock.

No one is taking you seriously, though. All we see is the finger pointing at the APC.