Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has said President Bola Tinubu’s new electricity policy validates a decentralised power model he proposed more than two decades ago.
In a statement by Phrank Shaibu, his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Atiku said the federal government’s admission that Nigeria could no longer rely solely on large, centralised power plants vindicated his long-standing position on electricity generation.
“It should not take a government three years in office to discover what was obvious more than two decades ago,” Atiku said.
The former vice president faulted the administration for increasing electricity tariffs before carrying out structural reforms to improve power supply.
“A government that thinks before it acts would have fixed the system before asking citizens to pay more. Unfortunately, this administration has done the exact opposite, raising tariffs first and only now beginning to think about the reforms required to justify those increases,” he said. Related News Scores feared trapped as Fedpoly, Oko students' 3-storey lodge collapses in Anambra Rental crisis in Abuja deepens, pushes residents to breaking point Bab el-Mandeb tanker traffic hits multi-month low
