First Lady Urges Nigerians to Look Beyond Nation’s Current Precarious Condition

•Says there’s light at end of tunnel

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to look beyond the current precarious situation in the country and see the bigger picture which according to her, has light at the end of the tunnel.

Mrs. Tinubu spoke yesterday, while receiving Wives of Service Chiefs and the Inspector general of Police led by wife of the Chief of Defence Staff and President, Defence and Police wives Association, Mrs. Oghogho Musa, in her office at the State House, Abuja.

The First Lady assured that the administration was doing everything possible to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal until the gains of the policy begins to materialise.

She said her pet project, the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), was also supporting the government, hence she solicited the support of the wives of the Service Chiefs to extend hands of fellowship to the programme.

According to her: “We will need your various Associations from time to time, at least to be able to reach out to women in your various barracks, to reassure them that we mean well for this country, and that they should be patient and that whatever we can do to ameliorate what the subsidy has meted to us, we believe there is always light at the end of the tunnel.

“It is a greater Nigeria we are looking out for and it is a legacy that our children and generations yet unborn, we would leave a Nigeria we can relate better as Nigerians and also look for the good of this nation and the wealth of this country can be greater enhanced.”

Mrs. Tinubu also promised that the RHI would soon be reaching out to vulnerable widows of fallen officers in the military. 

Earlier, leader of the delegation, Mrs. Musa, assured that the various Associations under Defence and Police Officers wives were poised to partner with the RHI in all areas of its scope of coverage namely agriculture, education, health, economic empowerment and social investment, adding that, “these are all areas of interest to all the associations.”

The First lady was later decorated as the Grand Matron of the Defence and Police Officers Wives Association, as enshrined in the constitution of the two associations.