Gen. Muhammadu Buhari the APC presidential candidate and his party APC yesterday unfolds their their plan on power generation in Nigeria if they gets elected.
The party plans to generate at least 20,000 megawatts (mw)
of electricity in four years to surpass Nigeria’s consumption level of around
15, 000mw.
In a statement, the party’s Presidential Campaign
Organisation (APCPCO) expressed dismay that the Federal Government under
President Goodluck Jonathan had only added 1.400mw to the national grid in four
years. The statement by Mallam Garba Shehu, the spokesman of the campaign,
quoted Gen. Buhari as saying that while he will not run a witch hunt
government, he will not hesitate to deal decisively with cases of impunity and
corruption. No probe of any government official, he added.
The statement also quoted Gen. Buhari as saying he is
passionately concerned about the sorry conditions of our armed forces today who,
despite huge budgetary allocations, have failed to effectively deal with
manifest security threats, including the Boko Haram terrorism.
“What he said at every given opportunity is that he is
keenly interested in knowing what has gone wrong, if any, with the army that he
knew. When he has access to them as Commander-in-Chief, he will like to hear
from his commanders what problems they are dealing with so that they can be
solved,” Shehu said. “In a democracy such as ours, all institutions of
government, including the armed forces, are accountable. No country can achieve
results in its counter-terrorism efforts when there is no transparency in the
management of huge resources for the purpose. He (Gen. Buhari) will
reinvigorate the armed forces and restore their rapidly evaporating morale,” he
said.
The APC Campaign Organisation accused the PDP of wasting
billions of naira on non-existent power, managing to add a yearly average of 87
megawatts of electricity, showing a massive failure to substantially raise
generation and distribution of electric power despite promises and cash
infusion of between $16 billion and $20 billion. Shehu said “nearly 16 years of
PDP administration gave this country a miserly addition of 1,400 Mega Watts
against the expenditure of more than $16 billion. That translates to 18.5 MW
per annum”. He noted that “this abysmal power production and distribution, with
its attendant socio-economic implications, is the most irresponsible thing a
government can do to its people.
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