The trying times in the country notwithstanding, wife of the President, Oluremi Tinubu, yesterday, assured Nigerians of a light at the end of the tunnel.

While receiving spouses of service chiefs and Inspector General of Police, led by wife of the Chief of Defence Staff and President, Defence and Police Wives Association (DEPOWA), Mrs. Oghogho Musa, in Abuja, yesterday, the First Lady reassured the citizenry that the current administration was working round the clock to cushion adverse effects of the fuel subsidy removal.

She said her pet project, Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), is also supporting her husband’s government to deliver.

Mrs Tinubu, therefore, solicited support of the visitors for the task ahead.

Her words: “We will need your various associations from time to time, at least, to reach out to women in your various barracks, and reassure them that we mean well for this country. You should be patient, as we are doing whatever we can to ameliorate what the subsidy has meted to us. We believe there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.”

She also promised that the RHI project would soon reach out to vulnerable widows of fallen officers nationwide.

Earlier, leader of the delegation pledged assistance to the programme to achieve its mission.

A statement issued by Special Adviser (Media), Busola Kukoyi, said the First Lady was thereafter decorated as Grand Matron of DEPOWA.