As the world joyfully enters Year 2025, we, on behalf of the Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives, extend hearty felicitations to all Nigerians, both at home and abroad. We congratulate us all for being alive to witness the birth of the New Year in peace, and tranquility.
Today, being the first day of Year 2025, whilst, like other parts of the world we are full of excitement, however, it gives us another opportunity to have sincere reflections, and objective introspection about the journey of our dear country, thus far. Fact is, Nigeria’s progress has been marked by significant challenges that hinder our individual growth, and collective prosperity.
True, the situation of our country, particularly in 2024, was palpable, worrisome, and fearful that it stifled the personal development of many citizens. From spiraling inflation to corrosive poverty, and debilitating hunger, it was pathetic for citizens. How about accentuating unemployment, alarming insecurity, and other disturbing multi-sectoral indices of under-development?
As the country enters 2025, it is necessary to reiterate that just as Nigeria have issues of governance and lack of inclusive economic growth, there is an urgent, and timely need to ingeniously address challenges of infrastructure deficits, mindless corruption, youth unemployment, and wide-spread insecurity.
Conscious of the fact that true nationhood is a continuous task, we enjoin Nigerians to collectively contribute towards surmounting these challenges in 2025. We call on Leaders; at all levels to commit themselves wholeheartedly, and truthfully towards the re-engineering, re-positioning, and re-awakening of Nigeria towards the process of achieving meaningful, and significant development in all sectors.
No doubt, Nigeria is a blessed nation with enormous potentials, and our diversity remains one of our greatest assets. In 2025, we admonish us all to harness the strengths imbedded in our differences to build a nation that works for all citizens. Since no tribe, ethnicity, and group, no matter how powerful can do it alone, we solicit for the collaboration and synergy of all and sundry. Through these, and other imperatives including believability, inclusivity, and mutual trust, Nigeria can overcome every difficulty, and achieve sustainable, and enduring achievements.
As we collectively forge ahead as a nation in 2025, we encourage us all to recommit, and reconnect to the values of peace, unity, and development, with the realization that the future of Nigeria rests on our ability to stay united, and work together towards the fulfillment of common goals, desire, and aspirations.
As a responsive and responsible Caucus, we assure Nigerians that further to our commitment to the general well-being of citizens, we will in 2025; and subsequent years in the life-span of the 10th House of Representatives, remain resolute and focussed in every national issue that requires legislative inquisition and actions.
Happy New Year.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Rep. O. K. Chinda
Minority Leader
Rt. Hon. Dr. Ali Isa J.C
Minority Whip
Rt. Hon. Aliyu Madaki
Deputy Minority Leader
Rt. Hon. George Ozodinobi
Deputy Minority Whip
