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Consumers oppose minister on 20-hour power supply claim

In a statement issued on Sunday, Adelabu announced significant improvements in Nigeria’s electricity supply, attributing this progress to various reforms initiated under the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

“The major achievement is the fact that today we generate over 5,500 megawatts of power, we transmit and distribute it, and over 40 per cent of customers today enjoy over 20 hours of regular power supply across the nation. You can see that there is a significant improvement between when we came in and now, which we intend to improve further,” he said.

However, ECPAC’s Executive Director, Chief Princewill Okorie, described the minister’s claims as “laughable.”

In a phone conversation with our correspondent on Sunday, Okorie questioned the credibility of the statistics, stating, “Where are the reports from the 36 states? You have 774 Local Governments in Nigeria, if you take 40 per cent of the population of citizens in these Local Governments, you’ll know what the data is.”

Okorie suggested that the Ministry of Power should establish a consumer protection department to gather accurate data on electricity supply, asserting, “The data is false, and the government should look at resolving the electricity consumers’ complaints rather than dishing out false reports.”