Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday said uninterrupted power supply could be a reality in the country, saying the only way to achieve the feat is to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.

Fashola, who stated this while marking 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof on the Lagos Television premises, said the electricity crisis in the country was caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of the federal government.

“I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity. I agree with you that it is simple; what we have done in Lagos within the areas where we are constrained shows that it can be done. But the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP,” the governor asserted.

He added that, “In 16 years, after spending billion of naira, we cannot switch on electricity and in seven years we have created four plants , it shows that something is missing. So unless you vote for All Progressive Congress (APC) and two with an inefficient government it is going to be difficult to have electricity.

“They started from Vision 2020-20 and I told you then that they were having nightmares; there was no vision. They moved to 7-point agenda and now they are transforming.

“Let me also say that in the last seven years, ask how many new power plants the federal government has commissioned, because sometimes the power that is coming to Lagos at most is 1,000 mega watts; oftentimes it’s 600 mega watts.”

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trash!!!
fashole you and tinubu should first of all refund the money you have been stealing from Lagos treasury

VICTORCIZA: trash!!!
fashole you and tinubu should first of all refund the money you have been stealing from Lagos treasury

What's this one saying?

I could remember vividly, some years back, of a proposed "Lagos state electricity generation and distribution autonomy initiative" that was dashed and halted by the federal government on the account that electrical generation and distribution is the responsibility of the federal government and not the states. It was halted then because of some political reasons. Surely, if the initiative was let lived then, I'm very sure that electricity outage would have been something of erstwhile is Lagos state now. I think is high time we autonomized our power sector.

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