Tinubu’s Power Minister, Adelabu Clueless, Has Taken Nigeria 10 Years Backward – Deji Adeyanju

Human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has called on the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to sack Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu.

Adeyanju who described Adelabu as clueless made this known in a post on X platform on Tuesday.

He explained that the minister had taken Nigeria 10 years backwards with his “incompetence.”

“Adelabu, Minister of power is too clueless. He has taken Nigeria 10yrs backward with his incompetence.

“Sack Adelabu now,” he wrote.

The Minister of Power, Adelabu, had summoned the Chief Executives of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) over the worsening power supply in their regions.

The Minister in a statement by his media aide, Bolaji Tunji, had also summoned the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Sule Ahmed Abdulazeez over the deteriorating power situation.

In a letter signed by the Director, Distribution Services at the Federal Ministry of Power, Engineer B.U Mustapha, the CEOs of the institutions were asked to attend a meeting called by the minister in the coming week to discuss issues bothering on worsening electricity supply in their regions with a view to proffering a lasting solution.

The minister had also stated that the management of other non-performing DISCOs would be queried as reports continued to filter in on situations in their regions.

“These two DISCOs have been summoned due to the worsening power supply situation in their regions despite improved supply from TCN”, he had said.

According to the statement, the ministry had been putting pressure on the Generating Companies (GENCOs) to improve performance and generation has been ramped up to over 4000MW in recent days.

“So, we expect power supply to have improved across the country, unlike what we are experiencing in some regions, presently. Findings revealed that some distribution companies were deliberately not taking up power supply from TCN while some power lines were also damaged by vandals in Abuja , Benin, Port Harcourt and Ibadan regions.

“Going forward, the minister said focus would be on all the DISCOs to compel them to expected performance while wilful, non- performance by any DISCO could suffice as a reason for severe punishment or outright license revocation,” the statement said.

The minister has also directed TCN to immediately commence repair works on the damaged transmission towers and power lines in order to improve supply in the affected regions.

Recall that the minister had embarked on supervisory visits to some of the power generating plants in the last few months.