Former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has called on Nigerians to expect the change they voted for in 2016.
Anyaoku gave this assurance in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja.
According to him, the pervading insecurity in the country would be brought under control.
He also expressed hope that corruption which had remained the greatest bane to national development would be effectively tackled.
“The infrastructural deficit in power supply, transportation including roads, education and health will receive attention.
“Youth unemployment together with the widespread poverty of the masses will be productively addressed,” the statement quoted Anyaoku as saying.
The elder statesman described 2015 as a year of historic events which began with insecurity and devastation in the North-Eastern part of the country.
“But thanks to the initiative by some elder-statesmen led to signing of the Abuja Accord of violence-free campaigns by the 14 presidential candidates and their political parties.
“The elections were peaceful which enabled the country to progress its evolving democracy by having for the first time a peaceful change of government from a ruling to an opposition party,” he said.
Anyoku said that the challenge facing the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was to work with all the regions of the country for the realisation of these hopes.