President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that 2023 would be a year his administration would work to solidify on delivering key strategic priorities for the development of the country.

Buhari listed the priority areas his administration would focus on in 2023 to include security, economy, and anti-corruption as contained in his government’s ‘SEA’ agenda.

The President said this via his 2023 New Year message, a copy of which was made available to The Star on Saturday.

He assured Nigerians that the 2023 general election would be free and fair, adding that his administration would maintain and build economic growth in 2023.

President Buhari said: “The year 2023 would, indeed, be a time when we would work to solidify on delivering key strategic priorities under our ‘SEA’ – (Security, Economy and Anti-Corruption) Agenda.  Some of the key priority areas we would direct our attention and strengths to include:

“Focus on Security; we will continue to engage, push back and dismantle the operations of both internal and external extremist and criminal groups waging war against our communities across the Nation. We will also focus on ensuring that free and fair elections would be held come February 2023. Our security forces are working in partnership to ensure the wins we have got in war against insurgency, banditry, secession, and other crimes are sustained and more wins acquired.

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“For the Economy; our focus would be on maintaining and building economic growth through the national economic diversification agenda that supports the goal of national food self-sufficiency and growth in non-oil sources. The ongoing infrastructure revolution by our administration will see us deliver the key projects across the nation in power, rail, roads, ports, and technology.

“On the anti-corruption drive of our administration, we have created new records in this fight, growing from 117 convictions in 2017 to 3,615 convictions as at December 2022. We as a government are committed to ridding our nation of all forms of corruption, through the collaboration with all the arms of Government to effectively prosecute this fight.”

“As we welcome the New Year, let us look with hope to 2023, a year to move forward as a nation towards unity, progress, and prosperity. I offer my own personal felicitations, mindful of the various opinions and interpretations of our executive legacies.”

The Star