Atiku: Tinubu Finally Adopting My 21-Year-Old Power Sector Blueprint

Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress, ADC, Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, says President Bola Tinubu has finally embraced his 21-year-old blueprint for Nigeria’s power sector to address the country’s electricity challenges. 

Atiku’s spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

Atiku said the Tinubu administration’s recent policy shift amounts to a belated endorsement of the decentralised electricity model he championed more than two decades ago.

According to him, the admission by the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, that Nigeria can no longer depend solely on large, centralised power plants validates his long-held position.

“It should not take a government three years in office to discover what was obvious more than two decades ago,” Atiku said.

“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.”

The former Vice President recalled that during his tenure under President Olusegun Obasanjo, he consistently advocated for decentralised power generation by harnessing Nigeria’s diverse energy resources, including hydroelectric dams, solar, gas, and other viable sources.

“This has been my position for over two decades,” he stated.