Presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu has blamed the incessant power failures assailing the country’s economy on the previous administration’s failure to heed his advice.

Mr Tinubu who made this revelation while speaking at a parley on Wednesday disclosed how he brought in major investors into the country.

The former governor boasted that he was the first governor to introduce the Independent Power Project in Nigeria.

“I am the first governor to bring Independent Power Project (IPP) to Nigeria. It was 300 megawatts. If they had followed my advice then, Nigeria will not be facing epileptic power supplies,” the former Lagos governor said.

Mr Tinubu, who has formally entered the presidential election race for 2023, hailed himself as the most qualified candidate, adding that his dream is for a country that is not a poverty index.
Nigeria’s power grid collapsed last Friday, the third time in less than four weeks.

In the wake of the latest grid collapse, Minister of Power Abubakar Aliyu on Saturday announced that an investigation had been launched into the recurring collapse.

On his part, works minister Tunde Fashola blamed unnamed vandals for the nationwide blackout reported after the national grid collapsed that occurred on Friday evening.

ChoCho54:
Garuba shehu and Adesina should better mark this guy closely because, I think he's subtly began to fight dirty.

triple996:

Penguin2:
Tinubu should cut us some slack.

That’s how Fashola boasted that any serious government would fix power in 6 months.

Graciously, they succeeded in grabbing power and the fool was made minister of power for a whopping 4 years and he couldn’t add a single megawatt to what we were already generating.

No be person tell am to shut up.


Our best route to fixing power was Barth Nnaji but Jonathan was bullied to sack the man and he did. Such a weakling he was with power.

Throwback:


Why did Barth Nnaji put himself in a compromising position that made Jonathan sack him?

Maybe if the PDP federal government had allowed Tinubu's brilliant intervention on Electric Power flourish in 2000, we would not have needed a Barth Nnaji to come mess himself up over a decade later.


Our best route to fixing power was the liberalisation of the power sector that Tinubu pursued with the Enron project in Lagos.

Tinubu may be as corrupt as every single state Governor Nigeria has had since 1999, but he is certainly a visionary who faced challenges head on.

Tinubu's government in Lagos pioneered a lot of public initiatives and solutions in different sectors that other states later copied.

LASTMA for traffic.
LAWMA for waste disposal
Enron IPP for electrical power
Revamping of Primary Health Centers
BRT for public transportation
Local Government Areas were increased to 57 (37 LCDAs that will in due time become full-fledged LGAs).
State monthly IGR rose from N600m to about N10b between 1999 to 2007.
The very 1st state to embrace digital technology (Oracle) in managing its civil service and public database.

Return of all missionary schools to their original owners, despite the disapproval of his fellow Muslims who didn't want their own schools back and wanted the Christian schools to remain state owned, Tinubu did not yield to their parochial opinions.
Despite the return to private ownership, all students who were already in JSS2 to SSS3, were exempt from the new school fees charged by the returning proprietors as Lagos State was paying a yearly subsidy to the new ownership to cover the students mapped as state responsibility until the last set of JSS2 public students graduated 5years later.

Tinubu was the one who showed other state governments the power that was inherent in a state government and the separation of power between federal vs state.

Obasanjo will never forget Tinubu who did not surrender the independence of his state to the mercy of the federal government. Buhari will never forget how Tinubu championed and finetuned his presidential ambition, even employing his Chicago connections to get the same PR team that managed the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.

Tinubu did not learn from his peers, instead he pioneered for the duplication by his peers. He has demonstrated an ability to lead and to create order out of chaos.

Tinubu has managed a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, and is better experienced at being an impartial and sensitive leader at the national level for a heterogeneous country like Nigeria.

obinnajohnson:
Campaign strategy! This man's desperation is out of this world.

Throwback:


Why did Barth Nnaji put himself in a compromising position that made Jonathan sack him?

Maybe if the PDP federal government had allowed Tinubu's brilliant intervention on Electric Power flourish in 2000, we would not have needed a Barth Nnaji to come mess himself up over a decade later.


Our best route to fixing power was the liberalisation of the power sector that Tinubu pursued with the Enron project in Lagos.

Tinubu may be as corrupt as every single state Governor Nigeria has had since 1999, but he is certainly a visionary who faced challenges head on.

Tinubu's government in Lagos pioneered a lot of public initiatives and solutions in different sectors that other states later copied.

LASTMA for traffic.
LAWMA for waste disposal
Enron IPP for electrical power
Revamping of Primary Health Centers
BRT for public transportation
Local Government Areas were increased to 57 (37 LCDAs that will in due time become full-fledged LGAs).
State monthly IGR rose from N600m to about N10b between 1999 to 2007.
The very 1st state to embrace digital technology (Oracle) in managing its civil service and public database.

Return of all missionary schools to their original owners, despite the disapproval of his fellow Muslims who didn't want their own schools back and wanted the Christian schools to remain state owned, Tinubu did not yield to their parochial opinions.
Despite the return to private ownership, all students who were already in JSS2 to SSS3, were exempt from the new school fees charged by the returning proprietors as Lagos State was paying a yearly subsidy to the new ownership to cover the students mapped as state responsibility until the last set of JSS2 public students graduated 5years later.

Tinubu was the one who showed other state governments the power that was inherent in a state government and the separation of power between federal vs state.

Obasanjo will never forget Tinubu who did not surrender the independence of his state to the mercy of the federal government. Buhari will never forget how Tinubu championed and finetuned his presidential ambition, even employing his Chicago connections to get the same PR team that managed the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.

Tinubu did not learn from his peers, instead he pioneered for the duplication by his peers. He has demonstrated an ability to lead and to create order out of chaos.

Tinubu has managed a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, and is better experienced at being an impartial and sensitive leader at the national level for a heterogeneous country like Nigeria.

Throwback:


Why did Barth Nnaji put himself in a compromising position that made Jonathan sack him?

Maybe if the PDP federal government had allowed Tinubu's brilliant intervention on Electric Power flourish in 2000, we would not have needed a Barth Nnaji to come mess himself up over a decade later.


Our best route to fixing power was the liberalisation of the power sector that Tinubu pursued with the Enron project in Lagos.

SweetiliciousD:


APC got power partly because Nigerians believed Fashola had the magic wand for fixing power under six months as he made gullible ones believe.

Collapsing of National grid after 8yrars ?? Still a campaigning chip

Haba APC!

OkoroBufo:

Before I dignify you any further, who privatized the power sector, PDP or APC?
And what do you understand by privatization and the agreements Gencos had with the government ( that privatized it)?
Who generates and distributes electricity, Private individuals or government?
If you can answer these questions, then we would have a discussion.

-Okoro bufo

Validated:

Keep hiding your head in the sands like an ostritch, it would never help you. Nigerians voted APC to come and fix what APC said was rots of PDP, not to tell us the problem and blame the same PDP, who by the way were light-years better than APC in ALL sectors.

So much about, Buhari will handle security and Osinbajo will handle economy crew.
Results, Nigeria became number 3 worst country with security issues. On economy, we became world poverty capital.

donaldking10:
I'm happy they are now blaming themselves.