'My Power Project Story' By Olusegun Obasanjo

I might be insulted for this, but who cares?

There are too many public affairs commentators in Nairaland who base
their arguments on hearsay, half truths, ignorance and outright "brainlessness"

Their arguments are not coherent, factual or are based on what they pickup in beer parlours etc, 

Afam, I may not agree with you, on some of your posts, I am with you on this one.

Insults and name calling do not win arguments. Intelligent facts do!

------ but oga, you are the one ranting and going stark raving mad on here cause folks DONT AGREE WITH YOU. Are you sure you want to go around posting this in public forums were folks can post a response ?? I am just saying.------ _{some of us are here to push the pins on people like you ,  it is kind of a hobby for some people,  FYI ,  ROFLMAO}

I do agree with you when you say that the new trend seems to be to blame everything on Obasanjo but I have to say that the man had 8 solid years to do something substantial in the country. I mean if he had, say, focused on making sure that the federal roads were all fixed and in good shape, but that is not the case. So the people are left to judge half finished projects which it took him 8 years to get to where they are now. I would be fuming if after 8 years, my contractor had not at least finished one solid project.

This Afam of a guy is just a waste of sparmdrop
Lest i forget he sales power generating set, have seen his post advertising his products.
Never will he support anything power in Nigeria.

Another post by someone that should have been aborted a long time ago.

As usual when idiots like these lose out in any argument they lie, fabricate things to suit their warped sense of reasoning.

For the records, I do not sell generating sets, I do not manufacture them, another shameless lie by someone that was just a pure waste of orgasm.

@topic,

Unfortunately but not unexpected some people have taken the usual stand that Afam is abusing anyone that disagrees with him.

For the records, I never insult anyone for having a different view or opinion on any issue whatsoever.

However, I usually respond to insults in kind so whenever I am insulted because I have an opposing view by anyone I will always respond in kind, no apologies whatsoever on this position.

Even twins from the same womb differ on issues so I wonder why people cannot tolerate positions they do not expressly agree with.

So, those that want to agree or disagree without name calling and abuses no wahala. Those that cannot do without abusing others just tag along I will return your insults without delay.

I am cool relating with people either as friends or as foes. This forum is for sharing of ideas, I doubt if this is a political platform for people to carry out politically motivated attacks on people.

Lies, misinformation, deceits etc must be exposed to prevent innocent Nigerians from being deceived by those spreading them.

Haha

Dis is d playground of persistent and never ending barrage of personal attacks and insults

Just like Monaco is the playground of the rich boys,

OTTA farm the playground of looters and wowos!

Whoz next to be savaged and who is next to dish it out the venom !

Now that the dust has settled for fighting maybe there is someone able to contribute to an intelligent discussion.
How do you think Nigeria's power problems can be solved in as little time as possible ?
privatise fully ? privatise partially ? purchase a portable generator for each Nigerian ?
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We are just happy enough to BLAME OGA  joo 
Let all the leaders go to hell . Na me give them job ?
Una no see me as I foolish ? Common light man no get . Na suffer suffer everyday.
Pure water N10 . Haba!
O'boy dash me red ink too make I write

You mean you sef dey suffer for England ? Wetin you come dey find for there ?  oga my own foolish never reach that one sha 

To fyneguy claiming the power projects were 'white elephant' projects

How come it is the same 'white elephants' that Yaradua is banking on to generate 6,000MW in the next 18 months by completing the NIPP?

Lets not mix up sentiments here - it is not about defending OBJ, it is about a government seemingly bent on excusing its own inactivity/inability to act on the failures of the past regime - a full 12 months after they have been in power. That to me is untenable. Even as at May 29 2007, a mere 12 months ago, the power situation was at least better than right now with 2500-3000MW being generated consistently - some fraction of these coming from the so called white elephant projects.

Granted there were some managerial and planning deficiencies in the OBJ NIPP implementation and conceptualization, and those should be corrected forthwith, but what does NIGERIA gain from all this wild sensationalism that Yardie's lieutenants are engaging in? Bandying astronomic figures with no basis in reality, deliberately obfuscating such that truth is difficult to separate from fiction?

People are making this all about OBJ and his persona - it is NOT. Yes the buck stopped at his table, what we need is an OBJECTIVE and rational assessment of what he spent, how he spent it and what it achieved - not political point scoring by engaging in the new national past time 'Obj bashing'.

This in my opinion is not settling for mediocrity as some people have implied - its a pragmatic view point, more focused on actually changing things and bringing the much needed power to Nigerians, not on rubbishing OBJ's work (or poor work) for your own pleasure - that changes NOTHING on the ground.

This government should focus on building pipelines to connect the completed power projects in Geregu, Papalanto, Omotosho, Alaoji and others and determine how much it will cost to complete the rest of the projects. Simultaneously they should do their much vaunted 'planning' and lets see what their true targets are - Denying projects of funds for one year and then coming back to claim they are not completed is not only devious, it is downright criminal to deny Nigerians power in the guise of rubbishing a past leader.

roflmao!!!

This game of "buck-passing" will not give power to Nigeria. I am so disappointed that you have resorted to blaming Yardua and his associates for 'sensationalizing' this report. You have also forgotten that OBJ personally, handily, and willfully picked an unwilling Yardua to succeed him in office.

So, you can go round, and round, and round all you want, the truth remains that OBJ seems to have squandered Nigeria's opportunity to produce enough power for her citizens for the past 8 years. If adequate power had been produced as in phone service, OBJ would have been more than pleased to recieve all the accolade.

By making excuses for OBJ at this time, people like you unwittenly lay the foundation stone for Yardua's excuses for failure after his own tenure.

There is no better opportunity to objectively assess how much OBJ spent, and how much success he had in the power sector than the current House committee hearings. No question, there will be lies, fabrications, and political grand- standing, but at the end, and with all the evidents, we should come closer to the truth.

OBJ may even be vindicated by the whole process, who knows? Another reason to give the process a chance.

There is no point they can raise that would not generate 10 counter-points to smash their baised logic.

Excellent point!

Debosky,
one more point i would want to clear here for u.
it is all about obj and ottah farm because that was how the eight years was controlled.
almost all the major decissions were taken solely by obj and ottah hosted more presidential/party meetings than aso rock and other places.
to back this up, the idea of an elected president of nigeria becoming the petrolium minister at the same time was a perssonal decission for his personal reasons.
the idea of hand picking almost all of the politicians in our various political offices before and during april polls was personal.
the efcc in question has won several awards since its inception for her perfect jobs so it is surprising that none of u is ready to tell us what is wrong with obj and his daughter talking to efcc - our only hope or are we all coming into agreement now that efcc is a political tool used to witch hunt and is still been used for witch hunting?

Point of correction


Just wanted to keep folks up to date with this power debate because I have seen lots
of misinformation thrown around this thread.


The NIPP plants at Geregu, Papalanto and Omotosho have been completed. The only
reason they aren't producing power is inadequate gas pipeline to fuel them and
yar'adua's minister of state for power just announced yesterday that the gas
pipelines to these plants should be completed by June this year.

The NIPP plant at Alaoji I believe is over 95% completed. That brings the total
to 4 plants that are completed.

Also, the amount of money spent is somewhere around $5 billion dollars. The $10 billion
and $16 billion being mentioned here and there were just figures thrown out there
before the right figure was arrived at.

The central bank, finance ministry and accountant general of the federation have all
stated (at the house probe sittings) that the amount spent is around $5 billion. We should please use the
correct figures in our posts. Thx.