The
improved power supply experienced in the first months of President Muhammadu
Buhari in office was due to government’s conscious efforts to diagnose and
proffer solutions to problems in the power sector, Minister of Power, Works and
Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said.
Mr. Fashola, who spoke at The Guardian Power
Summit in Lagos on Thursday, said the improvement had little to do with Mr.
Buhari’s “body language”, as popularised among Nigerians, particularly on
social media.
The minister explained that the amount of power
available on the grid on the day of Mr. Buhari’s inauguration was 2,690 MW, while
the transmission capacity was around 5,000 MW.
He noted further that the distribution capacity
existing at around 750 33/KV trading points, from where power is received by
the DisCos and sent out, was about 4000 MW.
He stressed that the power then being generated
at 2690 MW was not up to the transmission capacity of 5000 MW and was
insufficient to optimise the distribution capacity of 4000 MW.
“Within a few months after President Buhari’s
assumption of office, power improved and we all acknowledged. We credited it to
the President’s ‘body language’,” he said.
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