By Seyi Babalola
Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, stated on Saturday that his policy document,’my covenant with Nigerians,’ has the most proactive approach for tackling Nigeria’s recurrent power outage.
Atiku decried the blackout across Nigeria’s southeast, northwest, and northeast.
He added the ministry and ministries in charge of handling the outage must act rapidly to restore power to the affected geographical zones.
In a post on X, Atiku highlighted that Nigeria’s chronic darkness remains a major worry.
“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.
