Minister for Power Chief Adebayo Adelabu has revealed the problems befalling the Nigerian Power Sector whilst assuring solutions are being proffered and implemented adequately.
Chief Adelabu made this revelation during the “Reunion 2023 and Luncheon in Honour of Chief Adebayo Adelabu as Honorable Minister of Power & Investiture of the Set’s Role Model & Patron, HRM, Oba Dr. Olubayo Windapo and Award Ceremony” party of the 1982/1987 set of Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan, which was held on Saturday at Bayseone Brick House Hotel, Samonda area, Ibadan.
The Power Minister, Adelabu who was honoured along with others for their accomplishments disclosed the problems of the three phases of the Nigerian power sector had been diagnosed viz generation, transmission and distribution phase. He thereafter listed the workable short term and long-term solutions for addressing this problem fazed in the Power Ministry.
“The three phases have peculiar problems but have been diagnosed. We are tackling the problems in phases,” assuring Nigerians would enjoy improved electricity supply.
Admitting the power sector is challenging but that he preferred such complex sector he said it was one of the reasons President Bola Tinubu appointed him as power minister.
According to Adelabu, President Tinubu earlier affirmed to him that he won’t give him a portfolio that he would be operating from his bedroom but a herculean one like the Power sector.
However, Chief Adelabu also gave the assurance that, “very soon the problem of the power sector shall be surmounted.”
