A former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, says Nigeria’s electricity supply is erratic and damaging small and medium enterprises.
Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who stated this in a statement at the weekend, claimed that high electricity tariffs by electricity distribution companies (DisCos) had left many Nigerians in a precarious situation.
The APC stalwart noted that ex-Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i would be the right person to revamp the nation’s power sector.
Okechukwu claimed that not making el-Rufa’i a minister would “regrettably” lead to the ejection of more Nigerians from the national electricity grid.
“A lot of rich Nigerians are already ejected from public electricity supply chain following epileptic power supply, and many poor Nigerians by high tariffs. We need a unique one like el-Rufa’i to fix it. I am neither his cheerleader nor am I saying that he is indispensable”, the politician however clarified.
He added, “However, as Mr. Project, he is equipped more than some of us to not only transform our electricity chain but sanitise the toxic energy industry. Nigeria will not develop until we fix our electricity supply chain because small, medium and larger scale industries could not thrive successfully under less than 4,000 megawatts”.
