Nigeria to attain 10,000 Megawatts by December - Presidency
- Nigeria will have about 10,000 megawatts of electricity by December this year
- This was the promise made by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu
- Shehu also said the government is on course with regard to its electioneering campaign promises
The presidency has promised Nigerians that 10,000 megawatts of electricity would be delivered by December this year.
This was the promise made by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, while addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, July 2.
Shehu also said the government is on course with regard to its electioneering campaign promises.
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His words: “We have more power in terms of electricity than can be consumed by the DISCOs. We have 2000MW excess of electricity that is not being evacuated. Before the end of the year, we are going to hit 10,000 megawatts from the 2500 megawatts we inherited.
‘’The burden by government for now is how do we sell this power? How do we take it to Nigerians who need it.”
He stated that the current tension in the country was because of competing interests, those who wanted to attain power at all costs.
Speaking further, Shehu said: “This is a government that is building long delayed infrastructure. This country will be a country of railways. There is no stage in the country where a minimum of two federal roads are not being constructed or being reconstructed.
“These things are building up, and I assure you that they will give up. As we inch our ways towards the election, they will continue to fight the president. The happiness that we have is that the ordinary Nigerians understand the huge conspiracy against them and are with the president."
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Meanwhile, Alhaji Mohammed has promised Nigerians that the Second Niger Bridge will be completed by year 2020.
He gave the assurance on Wednesday, June 27, in Asaba during an inspection tour of the Onitsha-Asaba section of the bridge, adding that funding would not be a challenge as the presidential intervention on infrastructural funding, aimed at ensuring completing critical projects was still in place.
A ride on the Abuja-Kaduna railway on Legit.ng TV
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