… Wins Thisday/ Arise TV 2024 Minister of the Year Award
By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Minister, Barr. Nysome Wike has again assured residents of the nation’s capital of more infrastructural development in 2025.
Wike announced this when the Thisday Newspaper/ Arise Television honoured him with the 2024 Minister of the Year Award during a well attended ceremony in Lagos on Monday, 27th January 2025.
Wike told residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to expect even more infrastructural development in Abuja.
The 2024 Minister
awardee thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for granting him the opportunity to serve.
He said,”I “want to thank Mr. President for giving us the opportunity. If the President did not give us the opportunity, we would not be here to contribute the little we have contributed.”
Likewise, Wike thanked the residents of the FCT saying “ l also want to thank all Nigerians particularly those who reside in Abuja, carrying on with their businesses.”
” I want to tell them that this year, 2025, will see more development and more infrastructure, and that is what is important for us.”
“We have no time for excuses, time for excuses are done. This is what the Renewed Hope Agenda is about”.
Speaking on the several unfair criticisms he had received from Arise TV and Thisday Newspaper, the Minister said that the award indicated that they were not biased in their selection.
The Minister for Information and National Orientation Alhaji Mohammed Idris, who presented the Award to the FCT Minister, described Barr. Wike as one of the very best who is not just a colleague in the cabinet but also someone who is very hardworking and a loyal friend.
“And you can see from the array of people who have joined him to receive this award today. Many former governors, many Senators, many, people, I cannot even count them, and I am honoured to be the one to present this award today, the Information Minister said.
Other nominees in the category of Minister of the Year award are Mr. Wale Edun, Hon Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Barrister Festus Keyamo, Hon. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Tunji Olubunmi Ojo, Minister for Interior, and Professor Mohammed Ali Pate, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.
