Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has encouraged Nigerians to continuously love their country.

She also empowered people who have strong hope in the administration of President Bola Tinubu “to pull Nigeria from the economic doldrums.”

In her new year message that was released on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, she wrote: “Mr President means well, good intention needs 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.

“we are inching closer to the end of our trying times as a country.

“2025 will unlock restoration for our nation and endless possibilities where potential meets opportunity and hard work produces shared prosperity.

"2025 stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written, it is incumbent upon us to pen optimism and hope on it believing that the new year offers us a refreshing new dawn that will crystallize our dreams and aspirations to reality.

“I do not have any 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 the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

"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 opens buds of prosperity.

“Mr President means well, good intention needs 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 looks 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.”