{"id":59426,"date":"2022-08-19T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59426"},"modified":"2022-08-19T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:47:54","slug":"with-veiled-reference-to-electricity-workers-strike-atiku-says-how-i-will-lead-nigeria-out-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59426","title":{"rendered":"With veiled reference to electricity workers strike, Atiku says, “how I will lead Nigeria out of darkness”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Atiku Abubakar, <\/strong>Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007<\/p>\n

Having keenly observed developments in the power sector within the last 24 hours, I am again convinced that my solution to the electricity crisis, as encapsulated in my Policy Document, \u2018My Covenant with Nigerians\u2019, remains the most proactive plan to lead Nigeria out of darkness.<\/p>\n

In this regard, my approach is to first remove the entire electricity value chain from the exclusive list and give states the power to generate, transmit and distribute electricity for themselves.<\/p>\n

An industrial dispute with the Federal Government in Abuja should not affect an industry in Lagos or a factory in Aba or in Kano or even an average Nigerian who just wants to get home, watch the news and sleep under a ceiling fan.<\/p>\n

Secondly, my policy shall aim at achieving greater coordination of investments in the entire electricity value chain.<\/p>\n

Investments in additional generation capacity are futile without consideration for the complementary transmission and distribution infrastructure to wheel the additional energy.<\/p>\n

Any investment in additional generation capacity would be competitively procured considering a viable mix of renewable (hydro, solar, wind and biofuels) and non-renewable (coal, gas) options for energy security.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, ahead of procuring additional generation, both transmission and distribution capacities would be enhanced with government and private sector support for investments.<\/p>\n

In this regard, we shall incentivize private investors to invest in the development of multiple green-field mini-grid transmission systems to be looped into the super-grip in the medium to long term while allowing the Federal Government focus on policy, regulation, and standardization.<\/p>\n

My aspiration to be President is to protect the interest of the average Nigerian in all circumstances, and on this, I stand to say that I have no interest either directly or indirectly in any generator company, as has been publicly revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 Having keenly observed developments in the power sector within the last 24 hours, I am again convinced that my solution to the electricity crisis, as encapsulated in my Policy Document, \u2018My Covenant with Nigerians\u2019, remains the most proactive plan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5786],"tags":[55,3139,5048],"class_list":["post-59426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-statement","tag-atiku","tag-darkness","tag-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}