Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has defended the inability of President Bola Tinubu to provide Nigerians with twenty-four hours of electricity, contrary to his campaign promises.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television, Omokri submitted that there is a limit to what President Tinubu can do about the condition of power supply in the country due to the structure and privatization of the sector.
The Ambassador Designate argued that Tinubu spoke like an outsider who doesn’t understand federal politics or the operations of the electricity sector when he promised to give Nigerians twenty-four hours of electricity.
“If the President says he will give twenty four hours light, he was doing it from the point of view of an outsider in Federal politics because he would have known that the Electricity infrastructure is mostly privatised and the little that left, which also needs to be privatised too, is the transmission and such a President is limited by what he can do in that industry,” Omokri said.
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Egalitarian Voice recalls President Tinubu was widely reported to have said during campaign ahead of the 2023 elections that Nigerians should not vote for him if he is unable to provide twenty-four hours of electricity within his first term in office.
