Oil & Energy
Fashola Proffers Solution To Epileptic Power Supply
The Lagos State Gover
nor, Babatunde Fashola has challenged Nigerians yearning for uninterrupted power supply to use the forthcoming 2015 general election to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Fashola who spoke Friday at an event to commemorate his 2,600 days in office held at the Blue Roof, Lagos Television premises said only when such is done can the feat be achieved.
He said the crisis in the power sector is aided by the lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of the Federal Government.
He lamented that “It is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity. I agree with you, it is simple; what we have done in Lagos within the areas where we are constrained showed that it can be done” and noted that the only way to have electricity in the country was to vote out PDP.
He said that, “in 16 years, hundreds of billions of Naira, trillions of Naira have been spent and yet we cannot switch on electricity but in seven years, we have created four plants, and we can enjoy regular power it showed that something is missing. So unless you vote for All Progressives Congress (APC) and do away with an inefficient government it is going to be difficult to have electricity.”
He said they started from vision 2020-20 and remarked that they had no vision but mere nightmare. “They moved to seven Point Agenda and now back to Transformation”, he remarked and urged them to ensure PDP was voted out in 2015.
Fashola continued, “Let me also say that in the last seven years, one may want to ask how many new power plants the Federal Government have commissioned because sometime the power that is coming to Lagos at most is 1000 mega watts and often times it is 600 and at most 800 mega watts”.