Nigeria’s Situation In 2025 Was Worrisome, Fearful, Say Opposition Lawmakers

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has extended hearty felicitations to all Nigerians, both at home and abroad, as they joyfully entered the year 2026.

The opposition lawmakers described the situation of the country in 2025 as worrisome and fearful due to the rising trend of insecurity across the nation, spiralling inflation, debilitating hunger and corrosive poverty, which was evident in the lives of many people.

The Caucus, in a statement jointly signed by the minority leader, Hon. Kingsley Chinda; minority whip, Hon. Ali Isa J.C; deputy minority leader, Hon. Aliyu Madaki and deputy minority whip, Hon. George Ozodinobi, congratulated everyone for being alive to witness the birth of a New Year, amid the various challenges that the nation and citizens have seen in the last year.

They said the first day of Year 2026 gives Nigerians the opportunity to have sincere introspection and frank reflections about the journey of the country thus far, noting that Nigeria’s progress had been marked by significant challenges, which in many ways affected national development.

“The situation of our country, particularly in 2025, was worrisome and fearful. The rising trend of insecurity across the country remains disturbing. Spiralling inflation, debilitating hunger, and corrosive poverty were evident in the lives of many people. How about accentuating unemployment and other palpable situations that are disturbing indices of under-development?

In 2026, it is necessary to reiterate that there is an urgent need to comprehensively tackle insecurity, as accurate and meaningful development of a nation and its people can only be achieved through peace and the safety of lives and property.

“Also, the Caucus urges the Federal Government to ingeniously address infrastructure deficits, youth unemployment, and brazen corruption. To achieve all these, the government must be sincere, deliberate, and intentional in its approach.

“Conscious of the fact that true nationhood is a continuous task, we enjoin Nigerians to collectively contribute towards surmounting these challenges in 2026.

We call on leaders at all levels to commit themselves wholeheartedly and truthfully towards achieving meaningful and realistic development in all sectors,” the caucus.

It urged all Nigerians to harness the strengths embedded in their differences to build a nation that will work for all citizens, since no tribe, ethnicity, or group, no matter how powerful, can do it alone.

“As we forge ahead as a nation in 2026, we also encourage Nigerians to recommit and reconnect to the values of peaceful coexistence, national cohesion, and togetherness, with the realisation that the future of Nigeria rests on our ability to stay united; regardless of the negative situations towards the fulfilment of common goals, desires and aspirations.

“As a responsible and responsive Caucus, we assure Nigerians that, further to our commitment to the general well-being of citizens, we will in 2026 remain resolute and focused on every national issue that requires legislative inquisition and actions,” the opposition lawmakers added.