The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has called on Nigerians not to give up despite the hardship it said the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government has inflicted on the land.
In his News Year message to Nigerians, the National Chairman of the party, David Mark, said that 2025 was, without doubt, a difficult year for the majority of Nigerians.
He said rather than the renewed hope the APC government promised Nigerians, it brought more misery and widespread hardship as citizens battled with an ever rising cost of living.
According to him, food, basic drugs and transportation were priced out of the reach of most people as a result of the government’s misguided policies, which have condemned more people to multi dimensional poverty.
He lamented that instead of the supposed hope in the new year, the APC government has decided to impose stringent taxes that are bound to compound the misery of citizens already overburdened by the cost of living crisis, stressing that the taxes will not renew hope but hopelessness.
“Nigeria must not fail. It must rise again. Fellow Nigerians, we know you are tired. You have every reason to be, but you cannot afford to give up now, because this country belongs to all of us.
“They want you to stop believing. They want you to stop voting.
“But if we rise together, not with violence but with vision, not with anger, but with courage, then 2026 can be the year we begin to take our country back, the year the poor begin to breathe again,” he said.