JONATHAN SHOULD BE PRAISED, BUHARI HASN’T ADDED VALUE TO CURRENT POWER SITUATION – NEBO

Former Minister of Power, Prof Chinedu Nebo, in this interview with ABIODUN NEJO reveals the truth behind power improvement in Nigeria and takes a look at Nigeria’s ethnicity issue, the need to focus on areas of comparative advantage, among others. Excerpts:

It is believed in many quarters that Buhari’s body lan­guage is responsible for the improved power situation at present, as former power minister, do you agree?

I don’t know the kind of body language that would turn around the system that took many years to be put in place and change it. Nobody’s language did that. The fact is, those who were sabotaging the power sector decided to stop. Only God knows who was doing it before, because as we talk today, not a single bursting of the gas pipeline has occurred since President Buhari’s inception. So, if it is the body language that is making the haters and trai­tors of Nigeria to stop, glory be to God. But I don’t think so, I think it is sabotage. Some people were orchestrating the sabotage because they didn’t like the previous govern­ment. Now that the previous government is no more, they feel that they have achieved their aim. But everything you are seeing today is a labour of the past administration. The current administration has not added any value to the current power situation in the country.

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