Many have been puzzled and piqued over this question. How did the new Buhari/Osinbajo government suddenly and rather drastically improve the power situation in Nigeria literally overnight? Apart from Asari-Dokubo and the people of Borno, most Nigerians have celebrated stretches of uninterrupted power like never before. My niece and nephew were overheard arguing on if it had been a full 24 hours of uninterrupted light. One said it was, the other said it was over 20 hours but not 24. In the past they barely had 20 hours of light per week. It’s been so across Nigeria, an unexplained miracle of the new “change” government.

Some die-hard Jonathanians have claimed the glory, “Jonathan did it,” they say, “after all has Buhari repaired any power plant?” Some have even accused Buhari and Osinbajo of sabotage, claiming they kept the power down for the 16 years of PDP to pave way for their 2015 election victory.

Let There Be Light

I believe I figured out what the miracle was today and realize the answer is simple and rather painful. While chatting with a friend and ENDS General, who rejoiced that he had not turned on his generator for a whole month, it suddenly hit me. I asked how much fuel he bought into his generator per month, “N30,000″ he replied. I asked how much fuel he bought into his car monthly, he said, “about N5,000 a week, about N20,000 a month.” It was so clear. I called up several other friends and asked the same question. One said, no, that he doesn’t use more petrol for his home generator than his car, then he said, actually I use the petrol for my office… “yeah, I do spend more fueling a generator than my car.”

You have been kept in darkness for the 16 years of PDP, not so much because of the generator cabal, but because of people more wicked than them. Because of the fuel cabal. It is the fuel cabal that ensured that you never had power, the same cabal and for the same reason that they ensured that your refineries never worked. They are the ones that said, “let there be darkness over Nigeria.”

The Nigerian fuel cabal make their trillions from fuel subsidy payments. The more petrol Nigeria consumes, the more money they make so long as the fuel is imported and not made by our refineries. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, fuel accounts for over 40% of Nigeria’s total foreign exchange expenditure on imports! When Nigeria is in darkness, there is a party in the fuel-cabals’ homes. We saw the generators as noise makers and income for the generator marketers, but we rarely recognized them as a cash cow, magic money for fuel cabal. Nigeria uses possibly double the fuel it uses for transportation, for providing power. Like a magic trick, our eyes were covered from realizing the real hustle of generators – doubling Nigeria’s fuel imports.

And this explains why, the minute Buhari and Osinbajo came into power and they repaired those refineries, banned those 120 ships and called all the fuel cabal to line-up and account for and return the billions in payments they have gotten for supplying fuel they don’t even supply, that same minute the power became steady.

We are talking of $5 billion in imports a year, more than double what it should be, thanks to our generator consumption. There is a long chain that makes money in this scam, from the government to the banks, to importers, to the supply chain and fuel stations. The banks for instance make as much as $100 million annually on premiums on forex sold to marketers to import this fuel.

How did the fuel-cabal keep the power off? The Buhari government must investigate old NEPA, they must investigate PHCN. There are people in those agencies that were on the payroll of the fuel cabal who kept the light switch off. Of course the privatization needs to be reversed as many have said. Imagine, the very same fuel cabal invested in keeping Nigeria in darkness bought PHCN assets and now controlled the switch their very selves! That’s getting the wolves to tend the sheep. The fuel cabal must sit in the dock! I have mentioned before that our refineries were never really that spoiled. Our power was always better than we suffered through. What Nigeria suffered for 16 years was people so wicked they kept us in darkness to fill their pockets. After all how can stuff built in early post colonial “prehistoric” era be impossible for us to build and maintain for 30 years of PDP and PDP’s godfathers? Of course not. We could have solved our refinery problems 10 times over and our power problems 20 times over had the fuel cabal not collaborated with the IBB and his PDP sons’ governments all these years to shut off our refineries and shut down our power supplies so they raked in their billions.

How the lack of steady power hindered Nigeria’s development can never be overstated. I believe these matters must be seriously considered, investigated and there must be justice for any and all culprits.

NEWS RESCUE.

hmmmmm

Thank God I voted Buhari this time

Continue feeling good by saying what you want to hear.... Buhari improved power!! By doing what and with which policy??


Rubbish!

Good one

Baba Buhari is the man !!

If PMB should probe all these sector, Nigeria will stand still for 10years and lip up as d biggest economy in d world.

Hmmm

ok so the cabal decided to stop making illegal money and give Nigerians light.

I don't want to believe that previous govt knows about this and did nothing. we all know that power is mostly stable as a result of the unhindered flow of gas. since this govt came into power I have never heard of pipelines vandalism except for once, while in previous govt it was a daily occurrence.

note that all those securing the pipelines in previous govt where all sacked by this govt little or no security personnel are the ones guarding the pipelines so as not to attribute it to security efficiency ..

from my observation apc is a party that is ready to bring down a govt for it to get power. good luck was a calm person so they capitalized on that. if we had a yar Asia or obj in power, I tell u Nigeria would rather fall than apc winning. may God help us all.

Is that the way they give light in the US. Giv light to few cities and leave the rest! Was he voted there(president) by those few cities alone. Here in Rimi LGA in Katsina state and also Okitipupa LGA in Ondo, especially okitipupa, we don't knw what light is

Frodobee :
"And this explains why, the minute Buhari and Osinbajo came into power and they repaired those refineries, banned those 120 ships and called all the fuel cabal to line-up and account for and return the billions in payments they have gotten for supplying fuel they don’t even supply, that same minute the power became steady."

"This joint is special"-Fela "It is odriferous in language" -Obaghiaobgon

Am coming with a reply

I have heard you.

Only in Nigeria, do body language produces electricity




No wonder the whites see us as black monkeys.



Op you mumurity is first class unlimited

We don't have light in Owerri here for the past 1 month .. not even a blink so I don't know the body signal buhari is giving .. abi I'd imo state not part of his body signal jurisdiction ?

pdf90:
We don't have light in Owerri here for the past 1 month .. not even a blink so I don't know the body signal buhari is giving .. abi I'd imo state not part of his body signal jurisdiction ?

Buhari said, that he would treat the 97% better than the 5%


Unfortunately, Zombies in the Waste of Nigeria are still defending him

chudionu58:
Continue feeling good by saying what you want to hear.... Buhari improved power!! By doing what and with which policy??


Rubbish!

Did you read the write up before commenting? The simple truth is that there was no need for any new policy to improve power.

Then buhari should begin to pick them up one after the other b4 they adopt another strategy.

LordMecuzy:
Thank God I voted Buhari this time

babadee1:


Did you read the write up before commenting? The simple truth is that there was no need for any new policy to improve power.

Continue to make jest of yourselves, Ok!

WhiteTechnology:
Only in Nigeria, do body language produces electricity




No wonder the whites see us as black monkeys.



Op you mumurity is first class unlimited

your type is the reason why whites call us black monkeys. this is simple physics, actions and equal reactions. Your body language will produce any reaction it deems fit.

for example, if your sister wears a skimpy dress and got rapped, then the man cld argue that he harassed his sexually with the reveling clothes.

so also, since your dad did nothing while your teacher reports your perpetual stealing of pens and pencils at that time, that prompted you to be a full fledged armed robber!


okay, dnt take dt wrong, I was only trying to tell u how body languages prompt reactions.

I 'll be back lerra

Op you are a shallow stupid thinker.... All those that praise or agree with this foolish writeup are mumu..... it not beefing or trying to discredit present government but he never venture to power since he came in.... Ordinary ministerial list is a big problem to him (lol) ....it too much obvious that anything good coming out of PHCN now is past government hard work and this is the truth cos I work in a power station. Stop giving undue glory to GMB... Let wait and see what he is going to achieve, and I can tell you this, most people are doing this just to console themselves because the expectations they have for GMB is too much and is like taking forever for things to start materializing

babadee1:


Did you read the write up before commenting? The simple truth is that there was no need for any new policy to improve power.

Why praise Buhari then?

Honestly im tired of mediocres giving praiseof improved power supply to buhari really the funny part is the power supply in my area was steady fr two weeks before buhari entered even if u dont want to give jonathan credit let it go to the private investors who actually produce and supply the light because they have been a success in such a short time

These problems way back, more than 16 years ago.

When I see all the posts on steady light I wonder if my friend area(satellite town and d envorn) follow for lagos...

The guy dey run gen daily, he only see ekedec light in a month sometimes like a week(6hrs or less) still monthly bill will show and you must pay...
The recent development is that except you have prepaid meter you light bill will be estimated, the old meter is no longer being use/read. The four flat now pay 23k monthly even when no light.

Meanwhile in some places in Benin, ekpoma, Yenagoa etc is having light daily (since before GEJ became a president) without paying all those outrageous bills...

Lagos Light need big change...
Is Mile2 down to badagry not Lagos State?