Our Problem Is How To Consume Electricity Generated Under Buhari – Presidency

The Presidency says the Buhari-led Federal Government has generated electricity across the country that will be too much for Nigerians to consume.

Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, stated this on Monday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen.

Shehu said there is no state in the country where a minimum of two federal roads are not being newly constructed or reconstructed.

He further stated the government was putting in place world-class infrastructure for Nigerians, noting that it was not unaware that its detractors wanted to take away attention from it.

The spokesman maintained that no government in the past was doing as much for the military and the police as the current administration.

“We have more electricity that cannot be consumed, 2,000 megawatts of electricity that nobody is talking.

“By the year ending, we are going to hit 10,000 megawatts from the 2,600 that we inherited,” he said, adding that government’s problem was how to sale and distribute electricity to those who needed it.

“They will continue to fight the president, but the happiness we have is that ordinary low-level Nigerians understand the huge conspiracy.

“Nigerians are with the president, the elite are going to places – America and the United Kingdom – and they are clicking in posh homes in Abuja, Lagos and some major cities in the country.

“They are trying to thwart the goodwill of the president towards the people.

“But, this economy is being re-built; more foreign investment is coming, more infrastructure is being given to Nigerians and even the security infrastructure which had suffered neglect over the years is being given priority,” he said.

Shehu said the President is being attacked because he has blocked access to public looting of the country’s treasury.

He further attributed insecurity and killings in the country to corrupt politicians.

“The competition for power has become fiercer because the stakes are very high,” he said.

“As I speak to you now, two former state governors are in jail; a lot of people thought that this war against corruption is a joke and that the back-and-forth that had characterised this over time, will continue.

“One of the two cases was determined after 11 years of back-and-forth between lawyers and Judges, kicking the ball from this court to that court.

“A lot of these harsh attacks against the president are coming from people who had become used to life style they cannot sustain.

“On record, there were people in this country, because they are influential, they had permanent suite in major hotels in Abuja where they leave lavishly at public expense.

“And, when they are leaving, they are accompanied with bags of Ghana-Must-Go.”