Not quite long after Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was sworn in as President, following the death of Umaru Yar’Adua, the new government left no one in doubt about its thinking on the thoroughly embarrassing inefficiency in Nigeria’s power sector. It was taking too long to fix the electricity problem and things actually got so bad that Nigeria, statistically speaking, became the preferred destination for ships conveying all kinds of generators to this part of the world. Efforts by a succession of previous administrations to tackle the electricity needs of the country yielded very little. The darkness in Nigeria persisted and the problems of the power sector seemed too difficult to tackle. What was to be done? First, Jonathan inaugurated his now famous Power Reform Roadmap which he personally flagged off – in a flamboyant ceremony – in Lagos. To many Nigerians, that was the day that our President declared war against persistent darkness in Nigeria, an ugly phenomenon that has held back and substantially frustrated efforts to develop Nigeria and grow its economy.
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