2023: Great News, Relief for Nigerians as Atiku's Aide Eta Uso Reveals Ex-VP's Strategy for Power Sector
- Atiku Abubakar, the PDP's presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections, believes he has the ideas to fix Nigeria's power issues
- During a recent interview, the former vice president his suggestion during the Obasanjo-led government was to decentralise power generation and transmission
- The northern politician added that at the time he suggested that the country can use other sources of power other than gas like hydro, solar, and coal
Eta Uso, the special assistant on new media to Atiku Abubakar, believes that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections has excellent plans to fix Nigeria's problems.
Power sector
According to one of Uso's tweets on Friday, July 22, Atiku has a working plan for the power sector that will benefit the government and citizens of the country.
Source: Twitter
The media aide to PDP's presidential candidate noted that his principal could not achieve the feat as a vice president during the Obasanjo-led administration.
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He said:
"It’s clear he will do it as president. He has the roadmap from start to finish, and he has said it out here on the Arise TV interview."
During the interview, Atiku said while he was the vice president, the total generation in the power sector was about 4000 Megawatts, adding that the federal government at the time initiated the building of nine additional power stations.
He noted that the result of the additional stations was an increase from 4000mw to 13,000mw.
However, he explained that there is always a grid collapse when the power generated cannot be evacuated by the transmission lines.
Responding to questions as to how he intends to fix the problems, Atiku went down memory lane to a suggestion he made to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on decentralising power generation and transmission.
He said his suggested solution then was the use of various sources of power: hydro (water), solar, and coal.
He is of the strong opinion that if the policy on power generation is reviewed to reflect decentralisation, the issue of power outages and grid collapse will be history.
The best candidate
Quoting one of Atiku's remarks during the interview, the media aide tweeted:
“I don’t think Chief Obasanjo has a better person to support than myself, because I have his legacy to continue.”
Duplicated agencies
As contained in a tweet by Uso, Atiku decried what he described as duplicity of agencies in the current government.
The tweet read:
“The agencies of the federal government are just too many and they are duplicating themselves.” #AtikuOnAriseTV about running a lean government."
Technology
He went on to state that the PDP's presidential flagbearer "has also shown for the umpteenth time that he is a lover and embracer of tech. His reference...to his implementation of the same at AUN further drives down this point."
Uso is certain as Atiku is so sound...a man who understands the issues and the solutions.
Imbalance in appointment
During the interview, Atiku also spoke on the fact that Nigeria at the moment has 17 security agencies and that they are all headed by one section of this country.
In his opinion, Atiku believes that this is a serious imbalance.
Passion for problem-solving
Saying that his aim is to fix problems in the nation, Atiku said on air that his driven by a passion to give back to the country.
I didn’t reject Wike, Atiku says, reveals why he picked Okowa as running mate
Atiku had said he did not pick Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state as his running mate because he wanted someone he could work with “amicably”.
The former vice-president stated this in an interview on Friday, July 22, monitored by Legit.ng.
The PDP candidate had picked Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election, despite the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) endorsing Wike for the role.
Source: Legit.ng
