The opposition coalition, African Democratic Congress (ADC) has told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that Nigerians will hold him responsible for his promise of a stable electricity supply during the next election if he decides to re-contest.
ADC coalition’s interim spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, in a post on his X handle @BolajiADC said: “Mr. President, you once said: ‘If I don’t give you electricity, don’t vote for me’. Well, Nigerians are listening. And come 2027, we intend to grant your wish.”
Abdullahi said the opposition party needed to remind the president of his promise of uninterrupted power supply in four years as the situation on ground did not reflect that pledge, reports Daily Trust.
“Yes, that’s right, Mr. President promised us 24/7 power. All by himself. Yet today, the facts speak louder than Mr. President’s penchant for broken promises,” he wrote.
Part of the tweet read, “Since Tinubu took office, electricity tariffs have jumped by 240 percent, but the grid has collapsed 12 times, plunging millions of homes and businesses into repeated darkness. Over 90 million Nigerians still lack electricity, while many get just four to six hours a day under Tinubu’s failed Band A–E system.
“In rural communities, most of Nigeria’s 50 million families remain completely off the grid, with no access to electricity at all. Yet, Mr. President still has not moved the needle. In 26 months, there has been no major power sector reforms, no clear roadmap, and no sense of urgency.”
The opposition party said it had passed the halfway mark of this administration, with millions of Nigerians still charging their phones at mobile charging kiosks, and spending hundreds of thousands to fuel their generators.
“So, Mr. President, on this fine Sunday morning, we ask: Where is the light? What happened to your promise? And how much longer do Nigerians have to wait in the dark?”
Meanwhile, efforts to get the reaction of the presidency on the development were not successful as the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy Bayo Onanuga and his colleague Daniel Bwala could not be reached on phone.
Also, text messages sent to their numbers were yet to be replied to as at the time of filing this report.
In another development, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has warned President Bola Tinubu that his failure to appoint ambassadors to Nigeria’s foreign missions will have “disastrous consequences for Nigeria’s foreign relations and make life more difficult for Nigerians.”
A statement by the ADC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the party noted that this is the longest that Nigeria has gone without duly accredited ambassadors in any of its foreign missions and if this “embarrassing absence is allowed to continue, other countries will soon start to downgrade Nigeria and our people will bear the brunt.”
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