Chairman of Silverbird Group, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has directed his company to henceforth purchase only electric vehicles, beginning a self-imposed green revolution to drive the adoption of electric vehicles in Nigeria.

“I have just given a company-wide directive that all new vehicles purchased on behalf of Silverbird Group will be electric vehicles,” he announced in a tweet on Saturday.

“We are going to be the first company to go all green,” he said, adding that Silverbird Group “will not issue any car-loan to any staff except they want to buy an electric car”.

The electric vehicle obsessed common sense senator failed to have his bill seeking to phase out petrol vehicles from Nigeria by 2035 scale through the national assembly in April this year.

But this move shows he is not willing yet to give up on his dream of persuading the authorities in Nigeria to phase out fossil fuel-powered vehicles, following in the footsteps of UK and France which have set 2040 as dates to phase out petrol cars.

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He don shout taya, propose bill for senate on electric cars, nobody answer am.

Na only for silverbird he go fit exercise authority talk about electric cars.

If dem no come answer am, na him sabi

Electric kó, Kinetic ní

And how does he intend to charge the car, maintenance and all that. It is profitable to the wise