₦airaland Forum

AuItsene:
It was obj's job to work with the states in moving the country forward rapidly. Obj should have called the attorney general and asked how can we make this work.

AuItsene:
Obj came out prison with no plans other than self preservation.
Entire first term was spent traveling overseas.
Finally came up with GSM and Debt forgiveness.
Till today nobody knows the full story behind debt forgiveness.

SmartPolician:
It's either you didn't understand what you quoted or you are just being emotional, not logical. Nobody was encouraging laziness.

Government officials are elected to uphold the law; Obasanjo did what the law stipulated. Now that the law isn't working, the new government amended the law. It's as easy as ABC

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?

Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.

Ojuntana:
What is the economic importance of Kainji Dam to Niger state? Have you ever been to new Bussa?
Do you know how many indigenes list their lands while the dam was being constructed? Even the original Bussa had to go
Till now thousands of farmers lose their crops when the dam is opened

11doubledee:
Are trying to say from the acquisition of land,construction, management and even the power generation was and is of no economic value to Niger state?
The only reasonable point here is the flooding that occurs 'only when' there is a sharp increase in water levels which is not common,otherwise it's a gradual process designed not to distrupt people lives.
I don't think any society will ever develop if we just emphasize the demerits of a project alone without a holistic consideration.

JASONjnr:
Would've been intelligent of him to amend the law to allow states to generate and distribute power by themselves. He had the power to amend the law but rather he used the constitution to intimidate states generating their power to push it to the national grid.

So trying to justify his actions because he used what the law provided is encouraging laziness.

As at that time, Nigeria was giving Ghana steady power supply and making money from it. While many states barely had up to 5hrs power supply. Most governors where running their office on generator.

UltraSolid:
Shut up and get lost. Any worshipper of the very wicked OBJ, who impeached Peter Obi merely to make his "son" Andy Ubah Governor of Anambra, can only be a supporter of the most brutal civilian dictator Nigeria has ever know.

Your sort are demonic like OBJ with so many atrocities to his name as civilian President. How many Governors did OBJ ruin and impeach? How many Governors has his successors done similar to? Are those sort of reality not damning proof of how abnormally wicked and vindictrive OBJ is compared to other human beings?

Answer the above. Shameless supporter of the devil. Go and find out why Yorubas, OBJ's own people, have no love or regard for him. Clown

PussyMiners:
You are not only ignorant but blessed with abundance of foolishness as well.
How’s the nonsense you typed different from the clown I quoted ??

Is governance now a competition that OBJ had to ‘defend’ his turf according to you ?
Heck! this is Akwa Ibom we are talking about . A state that has more than contributed its quota to National purse via petrodollars.

20 years later, Nigeria is still not energy sufficient . Unfortunately for partisan hacks like you , the power sector has now been liberalized and will now toe the path visionaries like Attah had set out to take 20 years previously.

Ojuntana:
There's nothing like hiding behind a law
Did Attah also build transmission and distribution grid or he was expecting the FG controlled grid to be modified to isolate Akwa Ibom?
A lot of you just write ignorantly
Building a generation station is easy. It only cost money as far as a state is concerned. The real work is building a grid.
OBJ has exclusive control over the grid as far as the law was concerned. So you can't blame him for protecting his turf after all, he built 10 generating plants and Akwa Ibom benefitted from it as well

Ojuntana:
I have not emphasized the demerits sir but the reality
The dam serves all of Nigeria but only the people of Niger suffer it's demerits
The flooding happens every year
Niger is basically a plain

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?


What’s right about what obasanjo did?.. he failed this nation. Do you know what a leader does when ideas are brought to him?, he listens. If he had followed what akwa ibom, Lagos and other states leaders proposed about power, atleast the southern states would have been better with electricity supply. He was dancing to the failures tunes and chasing third term agenda.
Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.

Bobodee09:
The man who always put himself out there as a saint.

ObJ is the foundation of the problem we are facing today.

A very greed and selfish man. No one must outshine him ,he always has problem with anything good coming from other people.

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?

Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.

Ojuntana:
If defending turf implies competition to you, you might need to leave pussy for a while and go to school.

So, 191MW of electricity would have ensured Nigeria's energy sufficiency? What about the transmission and distribution?
Leave pussy alone. Go back to school

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?

Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?

Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.

Bobodee09:
The man who always put himself out there as a saint.

ObJ is the foundation of the problem we are facing today.

A very greed and selfish man. No one must outshine him ,he always has problem with anything good coming from other people.

fastseo:
Read again. Obj was upholding the constitution.

It was unconstitutional at that time to generate n distribute rather you send it to national grid then it will be shared by all state

Same way you can't drill oil n pocket it for your state.

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?

Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.

ntyce:
Shut up, olodo...
You read every part but omitted where he said this

Attah said he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the time so Obasanjo’s disapproval wasn’t about party politics but about a faulty federal arrangement.

It wasn't about Obj the individual rather the existing law at that time.

As the President, he swore to obey the constitution.
What subsequent Presidents did was to amend the law.

Leobankx:
A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has alleged that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo stopped him from distributing electricity to the people of the South-South state after he built a 191 megawatts power generation station.


https://www.channelstv.com/2025/01/17/obasanjo-stopped-me-from-distributing-electricity-to-akwa-ibom-after-i-built-power-plant-attah/

PussyMiners:
You are dumber than I had initially thought .
Imagine every state contributing the ‘119MW’ every 5 years .
That’s 119 x 36 x 4
That’s about 20,000 MW
Isn’t that better than our current capacity ?

You should take your own advice . Stay away from whatever you smoke and take your education seriously

11doubledee:
I don't think the yearly claim of flooding from the dam is true sir.
Over 1.5 billion dollars was paid to communities affected by the project(Niger state locals not Nigerians sir)
To tell me Neighbouring communities aren't also beneficiaries during the construction and management of the dam is something I find not just absurd and very untrue.
Also i will find it inhumane and wicked if Niger state indigenes are paying the same amount per kwh of electricity as someone in lagos for example.
Have a nice day.

Amalekki:
There is a clear process for constitutional amendment. A president does not have that power.

Leobankx:
A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has alleged that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo stopped him from distributing electricity to the people of the South-South state after he built a 191 megawatts power generation station.


https://www.channelstv.com/2025/01/17/obasanjo-stopped-me-from-distributing-electricity-to-akwa-ibom-after-i-built-power-plant-attah/

realguyremzy:
Then the law should have been amended. That is what is called progress

SmartPolician:
Obasanjo did exactly what the law permitted at the time. That was why it was called the national grid (everyone has to add to a national energy pool) and it was on the exclusive list. Yes, Obasanjo was right!

How about states that don't generate power but they are enjoying power from Kanji dam and other power stations in Nigeria?

Now that the FG isn't ready to shoulder that responsibility alone, Tinubu/Buhari et al has enacted laws that allow states to generate, transmit and distribute their own power. State governors should start building power stations now.