Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said the rot in the power sector came to office after he left office.

Obasanjo believed that if Nigeria must surmount the power challenge, it must start generating additional 2,000 megawatts every year.

He said apart from his efforts to ensure stable power while he was the military Head of State in 1979, subsequent administrations did nothing on power generation, up to the time he returned as a civilian president in 1999.

The former President said this on Monday at a programme tagged First Green Legacy Moment with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Leadership and Human Security in Africa, held in Abeokuta.

While he noted that part of the challenges confronting the nation was lack of political will by Nigerian leaders, he, however, warned that power should not be “privatised to friends.”

He said, “Part of our problems is lack of political will on the part of the leaders. What does a leader understands about development? Any leader worth his salt should know that power is very important. It is the driver of all development, be it social, economic, and even political.

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