Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
I read with consternation a report on page 8 of The PUNCH of November 24, credited to Senator Chris Ngige and titled, “Obasanjo power plants, wasteful”. The report quoted from a talk delivered by Senator Ngige on “Power Supply in Nigeria”, during the First Judiciary Day of the Student Union Government of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Since the Senator has so far not refuted the report, it can be taken that he had not been misquoted. Before the falsehood that Ngige peddled on that occasion begins to take root, I believe that it is necessary to lay bare the facts on the power plants established during the period he referred to and ensure that the public is not misinformed and misled.
Ngige was quoted to have said that “the power plants built by the government of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 to 2003 were wasteful ventures” and “that the cost of securing and laying pipe(s) to carry gas to the power projects at Papalanto, Olorunsogo, Geregu, and Omotosho and other places was
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