BiafraIShere:
Don't mind them sir! That is the more reason every Igbo man must work hard and ensure we leave this sh!thole for them. How many times have they used government agency to declare Dangote wanted? God punish Lugard for yorking us together with these backward and primitive barbarians who are anti development.

Mumu..have you ever heard that Dangote forge papers before? Why is your Lord running from one court to the other if his hands are clean.

Email: info@femifanikayode.org

OBASANJO, YAR’ADUA, BUHARI AND THE POWER SECTOR.

There has been so much speculation, misinformation and disinformation peddled around about President Olusegun Obasanjo’s handling of the power between 1999 and 2007. This contribution is an attempt to set the record straight and to clear the air. The truth is that the numerous problems of the power sector could not be completely solved by President Obasanjo simply due to the sabotage that his government was facing in that sector on a daily basis. And I am glad that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who served the Obasanjo administration but who is now the Presidential candsidate for the opposition ACN, alluded to that in last night’s Presidential debate.

Yet in spite of this the truth is that the record of the Obasanjo government in the power sector was not nearly as bad as many Nigerians have been led to believe. Let us take the frustrations, the bitterness, the emotion and the sentiments out of it and instead let us look at the facts. And here they are. In 1999 when Obasanjo was elected into office Nigeria was only generating 1200 megawatts per day. By 2007 this figure had increased to just over 4000 megawatts per day despite all the daily sabotage that was going on throughout those years. All the additional, vast, complex and extreemly expensive equipment that we needed to import in order to lift our power generation to the next level of over 10,000 megawatts per day arrived at our ports three days after President Obasanjo left office and just after President Umaru Yar’adua was sworn in. Now let me share with you exactly what Yar’adua did with that equipment when he came in. Instead of clearing them at the ports, sending them to the to the relevant sites all over the country and installing them he simply refused to let them into the country, he refused to pay the custom duties on them or waive it and he left them to rot at the ports. He did this for one reason and for one reason alone, so that he could lie to the whole world that Obasanjo had done virtually nothing for the power sector between 1999 and 2007.

That is how vindictive and deceitful that man and his little cabal was and he really did hate Obasanjo to that extent. Yet he did not stop there but he also went on to tell a pernicious and dirty lie to the whole world that a whooping 16 billion U.S. dollars was spent on the power sector by the Obasanjo administration and yet, he claimed, that ”there was nothing to show for it”. When his own advisor on the power sector wrote him an internal memo with proofs saying that this was not true and that Obasanjo had spent only 3 billion U.S. dollars on the sector and that there was indeed plenty to show for it the man was told to keep quiet and a few months later he was fired. I would agree with anyone that says that even 4000 megawatts is not that good but it was certainly a lot better than the 1000 megawatts that Obasanjo met when he first came in in 1999. When Yar’adua took over in 2007 if he had carried on with the efforts that Obasano had made for that sector, if he had continued to implement the reforms and policies that were being implemented there, if he had made Mallam Nasir El-Rufai Minister of Power as he had promised to do before being sworn in and if he had quickly cleared and allowed in and installed all the expensive and massive equipment that were just sitting at the ports we would have hit over 10,000 megawatts per day in terms of power generation long ago.

Instead Yar’adua did none of those things and, worse of all, he let all the equipment rot at the ports over the next three years just so that he could use that to discredit Obasanjo and claim that he did nothing for the power sector. As a consequence of this power generation under the Yar’adua administration dropped from 4000 megawatts, when we left office in 2007 and handed over to him, to a steady 2000 megawatts per day throughout the time that he was in power and until the day that he died. It never went over 2500 megawatts per day throughout the three years that President Umaru Yar’adua was in power. If anyone doubts this they should please go and cross check or simply ask Lanre Babalola, his Minister of Power.

Yet even today, which is four years since Obasanjo has left office and almost one since President Goodluck Jonathan has been our President, power generation is still hovering around 3500 megawatts per day. Is this not a case of five steps forward and ten steps backwards? Isn’t this pitiful? And yet people still blame Obasanjo for this? If he had been allowed to continue in office and if he had maintained the same rate of growth and power generation that he had started since 1999 we would have hit over 10000 megawatts at the very least by today. Again the infamous ”House of Reps Power Probe” that President Yar’adua set up to simply to discredit and eventually prosecute President Obasanjo fell apart after the truth came out and after it was proved that all the allegations against him were not only false and utterly malicious but that they were also fabricated by Yar’adua himself.
In addition to that the member of the House of Reps who had been commissioned to do this hatchet job against Obasanjo by Yar’adua and Governor James Ibori and who actually chaired the House of Representatives Commitee on Power, Ndidi Elumelu, has since been thoroughly discredited. It is about time that the Nigerian people knew the truth about this power generation matter and that they allow ”the truth to set them free”. During yesterday’s Presidential debate I heard General Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate for the opposition CPC, alleging that 16 billion U.S. dollars had been spent on power by the PDP in the last 11 years and I just chuckled to myself.
I cannot blame him for saying that because he was simply repeating President Umaru Yar’adua’s ”disinformation and fabricated figures” that had been successfully used against Obasanjo in 2008 and he now took those same figures and used them against the PDP in 2011. I guess that I cannot blame Buhari for that but rather it is the late Yar’adua that I will blame. In that same debate Buhari also said that power generation was at 4000 megawatts in 1999 when General Abdulsalami Abubakar was in power and just before Obasanjo was sworn in and that after Obasanjo came in it dropped from there and continued to drop thereafter right up until the time he left in 2007.
This is not true. It is not only utter falsehood but it is also the biggest and most pernicious lie of all. And I believe that it was a lie that was fuelled by malice as opposed to ignorance. What Buhari said was not only most unfair but also nothing could be further from the truth. He got his figures mixed up and the wrong way round which, I guess, says a whole lot about his mental state, his knowledge base and his so-called ”Presidential credentials”. The truth is rather that when General Abdulsalami Abubakar was in office in 1998 to 1999 (and throughout the time that his predecessor in office General Sani Abacha was in office from 1994 to 1998) power generation in Nigeria was just over 1000 megawatts and things were really bad as far as the power sector was concerned throughout that time. At that time and throughout that period we were amongst the three lowest power-generating countries on the African continent and yet we had such a massive population of people when compared with everyone else. Things were really bad. However it improved considerably when OBJ came in in 1999 and it continued to do so at a steady and consistent pace until he left office in 2007. These are the

OBASANJO, YAR’ADUA, BUHARI AND THE POWER SECTOR. – Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
https://www.femifanikayode.org/obasanjo-yaradua-buhari-and-the-power-sector/

All these qualificatione without field achievement would only make him head of police cillege-Academics.

Thats plane/take off position to the bottomless coven.

Nigerians with their myopic way of reasoning, allow this air cut freedom in that school and you will begin to see fake dada and Pogba kind of hair style. If you can not obey the school rules and regulation move else where. Stop this noise. Most of the students in question have their school code of conduct signed by their parent.

[quote author=doctokwus post=64305346] Much as the exploits of this great doctor should be commended,the facts should also be made known as to the particular surgical feat in question.
Dr Olutoye assisted the main doctor that carried out the procedure.
As the assisting surgeon in the particular surgery,it means he would acquire the necessary skills and go on to carry many of such procedures as the chief surgeon in future,but for that widely celebrated surgical feat,he wasn't the chief surgeon.
The chief surgeon should be more celebrated,at least for now. [/quote
...And who is the chief surgeon?

Fury and Wilder fights same way and not interesting. The best fight have ever watched in my life was that of Takam vs Alexandra Povetkin of Russia. Takam was knocked out but he proved himself a boxer to contend with before he fell . It was raw boxing match.

neoapocalypse:


Thank you my brother , Wilder can not take the dishing and has been fighting largely weak opponents , I put it to anyone that Wilder will be beaten by at least 5 fighters I know of presently

It will be suicidal for Wilder to fight Joshua the way he fights others opening up his face.

prodiG:
That's what i'm trying to tell these guys.The new zealander has never been knocked out.If joshua tires like he does in the latter stages,chances are that he'll run into a parker fist that'll temporarily scramble his brain

Parker gets tired easily too, check the fight against Takam, he was visibly running away from Takam. Watched many of his fights he can't take Joshua to 7th round before he falls.

DieBuhari:
Brown roofs everywhere.

He should help them change their roofing sheets.
So much poverty in the South wåste

..And your cursed vagabond Igbo people
Keep trooping to southwest. Your red cap lizards crying to form alliance with the Yorubas. Yorubas will never have any tangible thing to do with the Yamris because of ingrates like you.

Yesbody:


Çonvenant of all universities in Nigeria, what was the yardstick they used in the ranking ?

CU has the latest info and cut edge technology as far as education is concern in the world today. We are not talking about pentium 2 computers in our public universities. CU is fat becoming the Harvard of Africa..

Ibrahim Shatta, Okunnu and Ijebu are my favorites in Yoruba movies.

Yorubas always have plan B & C when dealing with an Igbo man. We don't trust them..

Chai! Innosson disappointed me, I had so much respect for this man. Forging document at his age and level! I doubt if there is any Igbo biz man alive with integrity.

dukie25:


I don't believe the story.
I mean how can an 80yr old monkey outpace young people, are those young people crippled and unable to walk?

Sure you are one of the brothel products with small red cap. I can deduce from your poor mentality that you have got no successful people in your lineage.

ottohan:
LOL
The ones in real life are so dark like coal and have been decorated with tribal marks

yoruba bride is still better than Retired prostitutes with hairy chest and yam legs from Potopoto republic

No Solo travel for Oga Jonathan again for now, Mama Peace must follow.

Tonto should stop smoking weed and all theses imaginations would go away..

Only a dead brain wlll believe this IPOB cooked up rumor. Igbo people should be wiser than this naaaah .'hai

Yoruba comedians are naturally always very dry. Take this akpororo for example, I've paid for his shows several times but I'm always only treated to noise and shouts which are typical of yoruba thugs. This cruelty is far opposite of our beloved sons from Biafra, Bright Okpocha, Bovi and so many more. When it comes to comedy in Nigeria and Africa, we the people of Biafra take the lead.

His mother is yoruba and his father delta. so he has yoruba blood. Don't say what u don't know. Infact he lived all his life in yoruba land.

you just exposed your stupidity..

You are a baby blogger leave the boys alone stop creating unhealthy competition between them. Hand to mouth and stomach blogger

Ask your mother in law her bombom size before u buy the pant

attackgat:


At least Ojukwu fought for 3 years. Could Awolowo even fight, of course not.

Awolowo was the embodiment of cowardice. Stop calling Kanu. Soldiers going to attack an unarmed man is not bravery

The shape of your head has reduced your brain by half..Awo was a civilian get that into your okpa brain.

The greatest and most intelligent leader that ever emerged from a country called Nigeria. Even ZIK acknowledged that The great AWO was living years ahead of them in their time. Baba AWO was not a military man but till generations to come some people will still be psychologically affected by his priceless ideas during the civil war.

baike:
guy urs is better, in my 200l I have about 14 carryovers

in novena university

And you are still alive! You are a genius in the opposite.

WowSweetGuy:
who else noticed he was trying to finger her through her skirt. Chai

Uwa bu pawpaw mehn

Your own badness is very bad..

If you are too comfortable in the war front you might loose the zeal and aggressiveness to pull the trigger after the command is given.

You can't just fathom the level of wickedness by ladies these days, to marry 2nd wife now na suicide attemt. Na wao

The wicked run when no one pursue..

tribalistseun:
we know you're crying inside of you, igbos are better than you people any day come rain come sun shine.

We know that your heart is bleeding of hate right now, just that you can't help your self

I know you live in a remote village, bring your okpa head to SW and see how igbos eat ewedu as if their lives depend on it. Perhaps they want to hijack ewedu from us. Your reasoning is too dry..

tribalistseun:
we know you're crying inside of you, igbos are better than you people any day come rain come sun shine.

We know that your heart is bleeding of hate right now, just that you can't help your self

They have not even started the foundation and this slowpoke is already masturbating over it.