Dissecting Tinubu’s Manifesto for Power and Energy Reform Babatunde Fashola x-rays the framework for power and energy as contained in the campaign manifesto of the presidential candidate of the All Progeessiv
x-rays the framework for power and energy as contained in the campaign manifesto of the presidential candidate of the All Progeessives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
APC came into office by identifying the major issues confronting Nigeria before the 2015 general elections and the National survey conducted showed that the issues at the top of mind of voters were security, corruption and the economy. On one hand they talk about stimulating the economy by “production, “ but their home economics model does not address how anyone can expect to produce without roads, ports and bridges or gas.
The Buhari-led APC government has spent their time in office building this critical hardware of infrastructure and many parts of power sector infrastructure are already being put in place. This is partly what the Ajaokuta, Kaduna, Kano Pipeline Project seeks to address.In other places, it was the transmission capacity that was struggling. This is what the Presidential Power Initiative is responding to by seeking to provide: The installation of Distribution and Transmission lines covering 11,650 Kilometers. The Buhari government has also put in place a policy for mini grids, supported by NERC Regulation No.
First, he recognises at page 30 of the plan that the problems cannot be solved overnight. He offers to eliminate the losses between generation and distribution by addressing the transmission problems which the current Presidential Power Initiative has started. He connects with the problem of end users relating to provision of meters and offers support for domestic manufacturing on page 31.This is more than a paper policy.
In effect, instead of advance payment for meters, it was becoming like an advance fee fraud that fits the definition in the famous Section 419 of the criminal code with payments made for meters not supplied. The anti-corruption stance of the Buhari government could not share the same place with such a scheme and promptly dissociated itself from it as a government policy, leaving it to the discretion of the consumer whether to trust their supplier with advance payment.
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