Tinubu’s reforms now yielding prosperity — Betta Edu

A former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Co-Director of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council Women Mobilisation Directorate, Betta Edu, has said the administration of President Bola Tinubu has moved the country from tough reforms to prosperity.

Edu spoke with journalists on the sidelines of the APC Women’s Directorate Stakeholders’ Engagement and Town Hall Meeting with Plateau women, held at the Rayfield Government House in Jos, as part of the APC presidential rally in the state on Saturday.

She said the women’s mobilisation team was in the state on the directive of the wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to run a data-driven and empowerment-driven campaign.

“We have been sent here by Her Excellency, the wife of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, our First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and she has asked that we should not only run a data-driven campaign or all the different ways by which we communicate our achievement of the government, and that we should also run an empowerment-driven campaign,” she said.

Edu said Nigerians had gone through a difficult period of reforms and transformation but were now entering a period of prosperity.

“For Nigerians, we have gone through a bend, a bend of reform, of transformation and what we may call tough times but right now, we are into prosperity,” she said.

“So those were the foundations that were necessary for our nation to move forward,” she added.

She said the engagement was an opportunity to tell Plateau women about the prosperity the Tinubu administration was bringing, as well as the empowerment programmes being carried out for them.

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“So as we are telling our women about the prosperity which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is bringing to the table right now, we are also telling them about the empowerment which we are doing here right now,” Edu said.

According to her, no fewer than 1,000 women were empowered at the event to recapitalise their businesses and support their families.

“Today, we have empowered at least one thousand women in this hall and we have done that for them to go back and recapitalise their businesses,” she said.

“We have empowered them to support their families and their children as best as they can. At the end of the day, we want to see happy families, greater families,” she added.

Edu said empowerment had always been a hallmark of the First Lady and was not a one-off activity.

“Remember the wife of the President has always been doing empowerment, so what we are doing today is not a two-day thing, it has always been like that. So that’s what we are,” she said.

She also called on the people of Plateau State to ensure the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other APC candidates, including Governor Caleb Mutfwang, to enable them to continue the good works they had started in the state and the country at large.

Our correspondent reports that the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, and other APC women leaders, including the wife of the Plateau State Governor, Helen Mutfwang, and former Deputy Governor Pauline Tallen, attended the town hall meeting and empowerment programme.