Vice President Namadi Sambo
With aging transmission and distribution infrastructure, as well as hostile host communities,Ejiofor Alike writes that power generation targets will not translate to actual supply
When former President Olusegun Obasanjo assumed power in 1999, Nigeria’s electricity generating capacity hovered between 1,500megawatts (mw) and 1,900mw.
Worried by the epileptic power situation his administration inherited from the military regime, Obasanjo embarked on the construction of gas-fired power generating plants under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP), with a target to hit 10,000megawatts of electricity by 2007.
The administration also started building new plants for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).
However, when Obasanjo’s tenure expired in May 2007, the country’s generation was around 3,000mw, far below the 10,000mw target.
Shortly on assumption of office in 2007, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had set a generation target of 6,000mw by the end of 2009, threatening also to declare a state of emergency in the power sector.
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