A group of veteran unionists and young professionals in the country has called on Nigerians at home and in diaspora to continue in their support and prayers for the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as well as the Ministry of Power.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday, the group, under the aegis of the Congress of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL) said the appeal was based on present hardship trailing various reforms of the government.
In a statement read by its national coordinator, Comrade Yinka Dallas, the group said there is light at the end of the tunnel for all Nigerians if people are patient with and supportive of programmes and policies enshrined in the renewed hope agenda of the present administration, particularly the ongoing reforms in the Power sector.
The group noted; “The significance of the power sector in rescuing our collapsed economy is not in doubt. We strongly believe this must have been considered by Mr President in putting Alhaji Abdulwaheed Adebayo Adelabu as the minister to lead the revamping mission of the power sector.
“We’ve scrutinizingly followed many novel steps the Honourable Minister had taken towards enhancing power supply, most especially solving the liquidity squeezing and infrastructural deficit in the sector, and we are proud to say the Ministry is in a far better direction now than in the time past.
“Nigerians will agree with us that solving a perennial problem like that of the national power project is a journey. And rising from the Retreat of December 2023, many initiatives have been taken to conquer the dreaded hurdles to power generation, transmission, and distribution.
“Among these efforts which are in the incubation levels are reorientation on consumption management, bringing some level of lost transparency in the sector, regulation on estimated billing, putting finishing touches to Zungeru power plant, intensify on issue of metering with the inauguration of the presidential metering initiatives, generating a cocksure assurance from Genco to achieve generated energy of 6,000MW, among others.
Comrade Dallas said that the group planned to take the campaign to all the six geopolitical zones of the country for proper sensitization and understanding of policies and programmes of government, towards greater support from the people.
