Obi mocks Tinubu: “No light, no second term vote”

By John Alechenu, Abuja

The 2023 statesmanlike campaigner of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has mocked President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) pursuing yet different illness of the nationalist energy grid, which plunged the state into wide blackout.

Obi, a erstwhile politician of Anambra State, recalled Tinubu’s run committedness that Nigerians should not re-elect him if helium failed to supply changeless energy wrong 4 years.

In a connection titled “If I don’t springiness you changeless energy successful the adjacent 4 years, don’t ballot for maine for 2nd term,” Obi said:

“The interaction is excessively glaring for Nigerians to hide the committedness of Mr. President portion campaigning connected 22nd December 2022 that: ‘If I don’t springiness you changeless energy successful the adjacent 4 years, don’t ballot for maine for 2nd term.’”

He noted that the APC-led authorities has presided implicit much nationalist grid failures than immoderate medication successful Nigeria’s history, contempt billions of dollars invested successful the powerfulness sector.

Comparing Nigeria’s show with different processing countries, Obi said: “Nigeria has spent much connected powerfulness generation, with small oregon nary summation successful supply, than countries similar Vietnam, Egypt, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. While they person doubled their energy procreation by adding tens of thousands of megawatts, Nigeria has hardly crawled from 4,500MW to 5,000MW.”

Obi stressed that boosting energy proviso to adjacent a minimum of 10,000MW could rise Nigeria’s GDP by astir 50 percent, unlock concern growth, make millions of jobs, and trim the hardship faced by citizens.

He criticized the Tinubu medication for prioritizing projects similar coastal roads implicit investments successful power, saying: “Factories are shutting down, jobs are disappearing, businesses are collapsing, and mean Nigerians unrecorded successful darkness.”

Calling connected the president to absorption connected generating and distributing much energy to powerfulness tiny and medium-scale enterprises, Obi added: “Mr. President, it is clip to prioritise electricity. A New Nigeria is Possible.”

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