You Are Guilty – Sowore Tackles Atiku Over His Reaction To Electricity Grid Collapse

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar of being part of those responsible for the frequent electricity grid collapses in Nigeria.

Sowore in tackling Atiku, urged him to stop pretending and trying to deceive Nigerians.

This follows the latest collapse which occurred on Wednesday, plunging many cities in the country into darkness.

After the grid collapse, Atiku had taken to the micro-blogging platform, Twitter to react to the collapse and also recommend a solution.

In a series of tweets on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, Atiku, a former Vice President of Nigeria wrote, “I am reliably informed that there was a total National Grid Collapse at precisely 12:23pm today. This is one collapse too many. It is the 6th time this is happening this year alone.

“Due to the priority that I place on the power sector upon which the successes of other sectors are hinged, I am proposing innovative financing of infrastructure that will involve the facilitation of a review of the financial, legal, and regulatory environment to promote private investment in power, among other sectors.

“I’ll promote the incentivisation, with tax breaks, a consortium of private sector institutions to establish an Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) to primarily mobilise domestic and international private resources for the financing and delivery of large infrastructure projects across all the sectors of the economy. The IDF will have an initial investment capacity of approximately US$20 billion.

“In addition, I’ll cause the creation of an Infrastructure Development Credit Guarantee Agency to complement the operation of the IDF by de-risking investments in infrastructure to build investor confidence in taking risks and investing capital. -AA”

But in a swift reaction to the tweet, Sowore said Atiku should cut the pretense as it was during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo in which he served as Vice President that the grid started collapsing.

He also made reference to the controversial $16 billion said to have been spent on the sector by the Obasanjo/Atiku government without any concrete result.

Sowore wrote, “The National Electrical grid collapse started when you and Obasanjo invested $16 billion to procure darkness for Nigeria, the @MBuhari regime came to gazette grid collapse as a law. Alhaji @atiku, don’t pretend that you care about the National Grid! #WeCantContinueLikeThis.”

The National Electrical grid collapse started when you and Obasanjo invested $16 billion to procure darkness for Nigeria, the @MBuhari regime came to gazette grid collapse as a law. Alhaji @atiku, don't pretend that you care about the National Grid! #WeCantContinueLikeThis

— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) July 20, 2022