The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated President Bola Tinubu has not reneged on his marketing campaign promise to enhance electrical energy provide within the nation, insisting that he’ll current his scorecard and clarify excellent challenges to Nigerians forward of the 2027 normal elections.
The social gathering stated the President remained dedicated to addressing the challenges within the energy sector, together with estimated billing, unreliable electrical energy provide and insufficient infrastructure.
Spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Alake, said this in a press assertion issued on Sunday, November 1, 2026, whereas responding to public commentary on Tinubu’s electrical energy marketing campaign promise forward of the 2023 normal elections.
Alake recalled that Tinubu, throughout a gathering with members of the Organised Private Sector in Lagos earlier than the 2023 elections, promised to finish estimated billing and guarantee Nigerians had entry to secure and dependable electrical energy.
He, nonetheless, argued that some current commentaries had quoted the President’s promise with out together with his concluding qualification that he would supply Nigerians with enough causes if he didn’t ship earlier than searching for a second time period.
According to Alake, a good evaluation of the pledge should think about the complete assertion alongside the administration’s report since assuming workplace in May 2023.
He stated: “While fixing the power sector crisis remains unfinished, the President is working consistently to deliver on his promise to Nigerians, and his commitment to face the challenges head-on has never diminished.”
The APC spokesman stated Tinubu signed the Electricity Act, 2023, on June 9, barely two weeks after assuming workplace, thereby permitting state governments to take part in electrical energy technology, transmission and distribution.
He listed Lagos, Enugu, Abia, Ekiti, Oyo, Kaduna and Niger among the many states that had begun benefiting from the laws by establishing their very own electrical energy regulatory companies and attracting non-public funding into the sector.
Alake additionally stated the administration had taken steps to deal with the ability sector’s monetary challenges, together with tackling greater than N6 trillion in legacy money owed gathered between 2015 and 2025.
He disclosed that the federal government had launched the Presidential Metering Initiative to deal with the nation’s metering hole, including that greater than 1.5 million electrical energy clients had been metered underneath the programme within the final three years.
According to him, the administration additionally established a N4 trillion bond programme to settle verified legacy money owed owed to 21 electrical energy technology corporations and fuel corporations.
He stated the primary and second tranches of the programme had raised greater than N1.2 trillion in direction of settling the verified money owed.
The APC spokesman additional cited investments by electrical energy technology corporations, together with Geregu Power Plc’s current announcement of investments in new energy transformers to enhance operations at its Geregu 1 Power Plant, as proof of bettering funding circumstances within the sector.
On infrastructure, Alake stated the Tinubu administration had continued with the Presidential Power Initiative inherited from the earlier administration.
He defined that Tinubu reviewed the present settlement with the German companions and signed an acceleration settlement in December 2023 to hurry up tasks geared toward bettering the nationwide transmission grid.
He added that the Federal Executive Council accepted contracts in December 2024 for the primary batch of 5 Transmission Company of Nigeria substations in key load centres.
According to him, the tasks are being accomplished and are anticipated to be commissioned earlier than the tip of the administration’s first time period.
He additionally disclosed that the Federal Executive Council accepted one other batch of tasks in June 2026 for the development of eight new substations and the improve of 4 present ones.
Alake stated the administration had additionally launched totally different electrical energy service bands and tariffs to enhance the monetary viability of distribution corporations whereas lowering the federal government’s burden of electrical energy subsidies.
He maintained that the federal government was working to stability the necessity for cost-reflective tariffs with the necessity to shield low-income households from unaffordable electrical energy prices.
The APC spokesman additionally listed rural electrification tasks by the Rural Electrification Agency, which he stated had linked universities, hospitals and rural communities to solar energy.
He stated plans have been additionally underway to modernise the Osogbo Grid Control Centre, which was constructed greater than 60 years in the past, and develop an East-West tremendous grid.
Alake acknowledged that resolving the nation’s electrical energy challenges remained an ongoing course of, noting that main energy infrastructure tasks required gear and implementation timelines that would not be achieved in a single day.
He insisted that Tinubu had remained dedicated to his marketing campaign pledge and would current his administration’s achievements and clarify the excellent challenges as he seeks a second time period in 2027.
“Fixing the electricity market and power sector is ongoing work,” he stated.
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