My policy document has solution to blackout – Atiku to Nigerian govt

The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, said his policy document, ‘my covenant with Nigerians’ has the most proactive plan to resolving Nigeria’s perennial power outage.

Atiku condemned the blackout in the Southeast, Northwest, and Northeastern part of Nigeria.

He said the ministry and departments responsible for addressing the blackout must quickly intervene to restore electricity back to the distressed geopolitical zones.

Posting on X, Atiku lamented that the perennial blackout in Nigeria has continued to be an issue of immense concern.

Atiku wrote: “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.

Meanwhile, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, yesterday, said efforts are ongoing to restore electricity to the North following a power outage that has lasted for days.

TCN said it’s close to providing a temporary “400-megawatt power supply to the affected Northern regions via the UGWUAJI APIR Line.”

The interim solution is expected to be implemented in a matter of hours.