Electricity Power Crisis in Nigeria Matter of Immense Concern – Atiku
By Juliet Vincent
A former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has expressed dismay over the dire electricity situation currently experienced in many parts of the country.
Taking to his Facebook page, he said every government department responsible for addressing the problem must be quick in its intervention and restore electricity back to the distressed geopolitical zones.
According to him, the Southeast and the entire states of the Northwest and Northeast that have been in complete blackouts in the past three weeks.
The former Vice President believed that his solution as encapsulated in his Policy Document, ‘My Covenant with Nigerians’, remains the most proactive plan to lead the country out of perennial darkness.
Atiku noted that, 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.
“I firmly believe that an industrial dispute with the Federal Government in the nation’s capital should not affect industrial activities in any of the states or cities of the country,” he stressed.
He pointed out that even as Nigeria focus on investments in additional generation, there’s a compelling need for capacity for the complementary transmission and distribution infrastructure to transport the supplementary energy produced.
Besides, he noted that considering that energy opportunities exist in different parts of the country, the strategy should be a viable mix of renewable -hydro, solar, wind and biofuels and non-renewable – coal and gas.
“I wish to restate my earlier recommendation to encourage private investors to invest in developing multiple green-field mini-grid transmission systems to be looped into the super-grid in the medium to long term,” the former Vice President said.
