The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, said his policy document, ‘my covenant with Nigerians’ has the most proactive plan to resolving Nigeria’s perennial power outage.
Atiku condemned the blackout in the Southeast, Northwest,
and Northeastern part of Nigeria.
He said the ministry and departments responsible for
addressing the blackout must quickly intervene to restore electricity back to
the distressed geopolitical zones.
Posting on X, Atiku lamented that the perennial blackout in
Nigeria has continued to be an issue of immense concern.
Atiku wrote: “In particular reference is the situations in
both the Southeast and the entire states of the Northwest and Northeast that
have been in complete blackouts in the past three weeks.
“Every government department responsible for addressing the
problem must be quick in its intervention and restore electricity back to the
distressed geopolitical zones.
“Meanwhile, I still believe that my solution, as
encapsulated in my Policy Document, ‘My Covenant with Nigerians’, remains the
most proactive plan to lead our country out of perennial darkness.”
The former Vice President also called for the
decentralization of electricity to states.
“There is an urgent need to remove the entire electricity
value chain from the exclusive list and grant states the power to generate,
transmit, and distribute electricity for themselves,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN,
yesterday, said efforts are ongoing to restore electricity to the North
following a power outage that has lasted for days.
TCN said it’s close to providing a temporary “400-megawatt
power supply to the affected Northern regions via the UGWUAJI APIR Line.”
The interim solution is expected to be implemented in a
matter of hours.
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