Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has enjoined all Nigerians to be ready to make sacrifices and stop the attitude of squandering the nation’s meagre resources in 2016.

Speaking yesterday in his Christmas message to Nigerians, just after a church service in Abeokuta, Ogun state, Obasanjo said the President Buhari-led Federal Government had prepared the minds of Nigerians for 2016 by telling them what is on ground.

The former President, who lamented that the fortunes of the country had been squandered in the past, warned that this must change if Nigeria wants to become a “sensible” nation.

He said, “We have had downs in our economy before, we have risen up again, we have made money, we have squandered it, and we must now really, if we are sensible at all – there must be an end to squandering,”

“That is the first thing by everybody. I still believe that there are still areas of government that are not serious enough. To make us feel that what is being said is something that would concern all of us.

“It would be very difficult for the people of this country to see that certain arms of government are living in luxury, while the government is asking the ordinary people to continue to make sacrifice.

“I believe that all arms of governments and the private sector should realise that if we are going to shorten the time of this hardship, if we are going to have any cushioning effects for the ordinary people, then there would have to be sacrifice made by those who have to make more sacrifice.”