The campaign promise by President Muhammadu Buhari to increase electric power supplies to 20,000MW within four years have been described as “not remotely realistic” by experts advising the presidency on power, an early blow to one of his most important reform promises.
It would be recalled that Buhari’s All Progressives Congress pledged in its manifesto to increase supplies from 3,600 megawatts (MW) currently to 20,000 MW within four years and 50,000 MW within ten years, which would meet the demands of Nigeria’s 170 million people.
However, reaching 20,000 MW by 2020 is “not even remotely realistic” and “setting unrealistic targets dilutes discipline”, according to a 54-page report entitled “The Energy Blueprint” obtained by Reuters.
A spokesman for Buhari said he had not seen the report, which is being produced for the government by power industry experts, but he said the government’s energy policy was still being put together.
Asked whether the government would adopt the targets in the manifesto, Femi Adesina said: “We need to wait until the policy on energy has been unfolded.”
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