By Seyi Odewale
The immediate-past minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Dr Bette Edu, has said 2025 will unlock the restoration of Nigeria and endless possibilities where potential meets opportunity and hard work produces shared prosperity.
Edu made this known in a New Year message, which she signed to usher in the New Year.
She called on Nigerians to see the New Year as a refreshing new dawn that will crystallize their dreams and aspirations and bring restoration and manifestations of ‘our renewed hopes.’
Edu said, “2025 stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We must pen optimism and hope on it, believing that the New Year offers us a refreshing new dawn that will crystallise our dreams and aspirations into reality.
“I do not doubt that 2025 will usher in a full restoration from the hardship and trials of 2024. It will be a year for the optimisation of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.”
Continuing, Edu noted, “2025 holds so much promise for our dear country. It is a year Nigerians will hold their great future in their own hands as the current economic challenges will give way to a horizon of hope and then open buds of prosperity.”
She urged Nigerians to be steadfast in love for the country and believe in the ability of the current administration to pull Nigeria from the economic doldrums.
“Mr President means well. Good intentions need time to yield results. I believe in the Nigerian project. I have always given my all to Nigeria and Nigerians; nothing will ever change that.
“I fervently urge Nigerians to look at its future more confidently than ever with an overwhelming sense of assurance that we are inching closer to the end of our trying times as a country,” Edu added.
