On Thursday, former President Goodluck Jonathan
fired some shots into the camp of the political party
which prevented him from extending his stay at the
presidential villa in Abuja.
Jonathan also singled out Babatunde Fashola,
minister of power works and housing, for allegedly
saying a serious government will fix power in six
months.
Taunting Fashola, Jonathan wondered why the power
sector was still grappling with challenges two years
after the former Lagos governor became a minister.
The former number one citizen spoke while receiving
Tunde Adeniran, a chairmanship aspirant of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at his Abuja office.
“In the power sector, we did well to revive it. A state
governor attacked our government, saying that any
serious government should be able to fix the power
challenge within six months,” Jonathan had said.
“Today, APC has been in power for how many years
now? Fortunately, the then governor is in the APC
government as a minister.”
But as far back as 2016, Fashola had denied making
the controversial statement, challenging anyone with
proof to present it.
“I have heard that I said that electricity problem will be
solved in six months. I have never made the
statement,” he had told the Nigerian Television (NTA)
shortly before the first anniversary of the Buhari
administration.
“Anybody who has a video of where I said this should
please make it public. The point I made was when I
was handing over the Lekki IPP because we had about
10 megawatts of power there.”
When he featured on an Arise TV programme in
September, the issue was also addressed.
“I remember where I made that statement, I did not
say the words they said I said. I was responding to
residents who, after we commissioned a power plant
in Lekki to serve the waterworks and street lights in
Lekki and Victoria Island, asked me when they can get
powers in their homes.
“And my answer to them was that we would be
encroaching the jurisdiction of the Disco without
permit from NERC and that if NERC gave us the
permission to provide power for them, the plant was
there, connecting to them was a matter of six
months.”
TheCable
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