In 2023, Nigerians want a responsible administration.
Nigerians have charged President Muhammadu Buhari’s government with prioritizing policies and projects that would make life meaningful and the nation livable for its residents in 2023 as the year 2022 comes to a close today.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was tasked with organizing free, fair, and credible elections that would accurately reflect Nigerians’ preferences and usher in a new administration that would lead the nation toward real development, according to those who spoke with The Guardian.
The calls were made in response to significant concerns from a variety of social groupings, interest organizations, and people about shattered expectations from an aging government in the next year.
The failures of governments at various levels to provide the enabling environment for Nigerians to live well and thrive formed the core of complaints and the basis for expectations in 2023 from the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), the business community, pressure and sociocultural groups, unions of textile workers, and students.
In particular, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEFNational )’s Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, stated that the organization’s sincere expectation for Buhari in 2023 is that he permit INEC to conduct free, fair, and credible elections and make a commitment to transferring power peacefully to whoever wins the presidential election.
Any other expectation would be wrong, he argued, given the situation. They are nearing the end of the current government. What are they left to do? Will they be able to do in five months what they have been unable to in seven years?
“Nigeria is essentially stranded. Rice, beans, pork, plantains, bread—you name it—were formerly staple foods for the majority of regular Nigerian households but are now considered upscale dishes. At N500 per litre in certain regions of the nation and much more expensive pump rates in other others, citizens are now having difficulty purchasing quality motor spirit (petrol). What a loss!
