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Peter Obi Criticizes FG Over Incessant National Grid Failures

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"3S2iSpcR" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has criticised the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; government&comma; over repeated national grid failures&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"HmPjxreN" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In a post on X on Wednesday&comma; Obi recalled President Tinubu’s campaign promise on electricity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His words&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lest we forget&comma; If I Don’t Give You Constant Electricity in The Next 4 Years&comma; Don’t Vote For Me For Second Term&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The impact is too glaring for Nigerians to forget the promise of Mr&period; President while campaigning on 22nd December 2022 that&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;If I Don’t Give You Constant Electricity in The Next 4 Years&comma; Don’t Vote For Me For Second Term&period;’<&sol;p><div class&equals;"OgKzmELS" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For a nation already said to have more people living without electricity than anywhere else in the world&comma; there could not be any firmer or more comforting political promise than this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yet&comma; the APC and its current government have presided over more national grid failures and power outages than any government in our history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are now repeated blackouts despite billions in power investments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Over the years&comma; billions of dollars have been spent on the power sector in Nigeria&period; In fact&comma; Nigeria has spent more on power generation with little or no increase in supply than countries like Vietnam&comma; Egypt&comma; Indonesia&comma; and Bangladesh&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yet&comma; while some of these nations have proudly doubled their electricity generation and distribution by adding tens of thousands of megawatts to transform their economies and increase their GDP&comma; Nigeria has barely crawled from 4&comma;500MW to 5&comma;000MW&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With a GDP of about &dollar;200 billion&comma; Nigeria has the capacity to significantly boost its economy if it invests properly in electricity&period; Generating even a bare minimum of 10&comma;000MW could raise our GDP by about 50&percnt;&comma; which would unlock industrial growth and create millions of jobs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But rather than focusing on this&comma; which would improve our economy&comma; we are focused on coastal roads that will contribute far less to our economic growth&comma; while factories shut down&comma; jobs disappear&comma; businesses collapse&comma; and ordinary Nigerians live in darkness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mr&period; President&comma; it is time to prioritise generating and distributing more electricity to power businesses&comma; especially SMEs&comma; which will create jobs and grow the economy&comma;” obi concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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