By Williams Orji
The former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that for Nigeria to overcome it present electricity problems, there is urgent need to remove the entire electric value chain from the exclusive list.
Atiku also called on the authorities to, as a matter of urgency, restore light to some parts of the country that have been in darkness as a result constant collapse of the national grid in the last three weeks.
Writing through his social media handle in X, Atiku said, ” 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 of the country.
“Even as we focus on investments in additional generation, there’s a compelling need for capacity for 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 be a viable mix of renewable (hydro, solar, wind and biofuels) and non-renewable (coal, gas).
“I wish to restate my earlier recommendation to encourage private investors to invest in developing multiple green-field mini-grid transmission systems to be looped into the super-grid in the medium to long term.”
Making case for zones that are adversary affected by the current epileptic power supply in the country, especially the North East, North West and South East, the former vice president called on ‘every government department responsible for addressing the problem must be quick in its intervention and restore electricity back to the distressed geopolitical zones.”
