The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has knocked President Bola Tinubu over the poor electricity supply in Nigeria.
In a statement signed by Bolaji Abdullahi, the National Publicity Secretary on Sunday, the ADC said President Tinubu has not lived up to his promise of improving the country’s electricity supply.
“Good morning, Nigerians. Today, we just want to take some time to remind President Bola Tinubu that he promised Nigerians uninterrupted electricity within four years. Yes, that is right, Mr. President promised us 24/7 power. All by himself,” Abdullahi said.
“Yet today, the facts speak louder than Mr. President’s penchant for broken promises: Since Tinubu took office, electricity tariffs have jumped by 240%, but the grid has collapsed 12 times, plunging millions of homes and businesses into repeated darkness.
“Over 90 million Nigerians still lack electricity, while many get just 4 to 6 hours a day under Tinubu’s failed Band A to E system.
“In rural communities, most of Nigeria’s 50 million families remain completely off the grid, with no access to electricity at all.”
Abdullahi said yet, President Tinubu still has not moved the needle, adding that in 26 months, there has been no major power sector reforms, no clear roadmap, and no sense of urgency.
He stated that we are past the halfway mark of Tinubu’s administration, and millions of Nigerians are still charging their phones at mobile charging kiosks, and spending hundreds of thousands to fuel their generators.
“So, Mr. President, on this fine Sunday morning, we ask: Where is the light? What happened to your promise? And how much longer do Nigerians have to wait in the dark?
“Mr. President, you once said: “If I don’t give you electricity, don’t vote for me.” Well, Nigerians are listening. And come 2027, we intend to grant your wish.”
Meanwhile, the war of words between the ADC and the Presidency continued on Saturday with the coalition party telling Tinubu he cannot buy the North with token appointments.
The ADC described the recent announcement of appointments by President Tinubu as a “desperate, cynical attempt to buy back the trust that he has spent over a year squandering, particularly in Northern Nigeria.”
In a statement signed by Abdullahi, the ADC dismissed the so-called appointments as “too little, too late,” adding that “you cannot marginalise a region for over 25 months and expect applause because you suddenly remembered in the 26th month that Nigeria is bigger than Lagos State.”
According to the ADC, these appointments are nothing more than “political panic management,” a frantic attempt to bandage the gaping wounds inflicted on Northern Nigeria by over a year of calculated neglect, presidential arrogance and unprecedented nepotism.
“For over a year, this government turned a blind eye as bandits terrorised villages in the north, as our farmers abandoned their land, and as rural economies crumbled under the weight of poorly thought-out fuel subsidy removal,” Abdullahi said.
“Now, under the rising heat of public discontent, and with the emergence of a formidable opposition coalition gaining traction in the North and across the country, President Tinubu suddenly remembers that there are Nigerians to appoint into positions outside his Lagos.
“Every major decision of this administration, from subsidy removal to a majority of the political appointments, have been taken without the North at the table. Now that the consequences of those decisions have become glaring, the President is doling out appointments as consolation prizes.
“But Northerners as co-owners of our great federal republic know better than to be deceived by these token appointments.
“They see through President Tinubu’s actions — and can sense that this is not genuine. Tokenism is not inclusion, and symbolism is not governance,” the ADC spokesperson said.
