General Mohammadu Buhari, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress has tasked President Goodluck Jonathan on the issue of power supply in the country.
In a statement issued by the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO), Buhari highlighted the promises of better power supply President Jonathan has made in the past.
The statement signed by Dr Chidia Maduekwe read “Four years is enough for anyone in power to make significant improvement and if I can’t improve on power within this period, it then means I cannot do anything, even if I am there for another four years.
“The ordinary Nigerian on the street knows that he or she is not better off today with stable electricity as against four years ago when Jonathan mounted the saddle.
“Most people will admit that they had better stable supply of electricity four years ago. The Jonathan-led administration had projected that 10,000MW should be generated before now. While the CPC manifesto promised Nigerians 15,000MW if Buhari was voted into power in 2011.
“General Buhari and, indeed, the Nigeria public has right to question why they are still in this epileptic mess of electricity supply, after sinking well over $20 billion into the power sector over the period in question.
“On per capita consumption basis, Nigeria is ranked 178th position with consumption of 106.21KWh per person; this is well behind Gabon with 900,000 population consuming 283.6 KWh; Cameroon 176.0KWh and Kenya 128.68KWh.”
There is nothing Buhari can do to the electricity supply in the country, except he decided to hang generator importers, pipe line breakers, and these guys are highly connected beyond the power of civilian president.