Atiku Says Blackouts In Southeast, Northwest, Northeast ‘Unfortunate’…Calls His Policy Document ‘Viable Solution’

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has described power outages in the country and the repeated collapse of the national grid as unfortunate while lamenting that the Southeast, Northwest, and Northeast regions have not had power supply for three weeks now.

The ministry and departments responsible for addressing this should according to him quickly take necessary steps to restore power supply  to the  regions in question.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar , who said this in an  X.com post on Saturday, asserted that his policy document, ‘My Covenant with Nigerians’, remains a viable solution  and will help to address the perennial power outages in the country.

‘In particular reference to the situations in both the Southeast and the entire states of the Northwest and Northeast, which have experienced complete blackouts in the past three weeks, every government department responsible for addressing the problem must act swiftly to restore electricity to these 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.

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 in the country.

Even as we focus on investments in additional generation, there is a compelling need for capacity in the complementary transmission and distribution infrastructure to transport the supplementary energy produced.

Considering that energy opportunities exist in different parts of the country, our strategy should involve a viable mix of renewable (hydro, solar, wind, and biofuels) and non-renewable (coal, gas) sources.

I wish to restate my earlier recommendation to encourage private investors to invest in developing multiple greenfield mini-grid transmission systems to be linked into the super-grid in the medium to long term’ he  submitted-Team@orientactualmags.com   Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you.