President Bola Tinubu has claimed substantial progress in reforming Nigeria’s power sector and expanding generation to a peak of 6,000MW during his APC nomination acceptance speech, a claim sharply contested by citizens facing soaring tariffs and chronic grid collapses.
President Bola Tinubu has asserted that his administration has engineered significant improvements in Nigeria’s electricity supply and made structural progress in mitigating the country’s chronic energy deficit. Delivering his nomination acceptance speech on Sunday after emerging as the All… Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate for the 2027 election, Tinubu defended his administration’s energy scorecard by highlighting metrics on infrastructural liquidity and distribution. The President claimed that federal interventions have successfully narrowed the national consumer metering gap, substantially expanded aggregate generation capacity, and institutionalized a sustainable fiscal framework designed to stabilize the perennially indebted power value chain.
The President’s optimistic assessment stands in stark contrast to the persistent grid precarity and financial strain experienced by millions of homes and businesses across the federation. Since Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has sanctioned aggressive tariff hikes—particularly targeting Band A customers—while the national grid suffered at least 20 documented total collapses between September 2023 and January 2026. Consumer advocacy groups and industrial unions have repeatedly staged protests across states like Lagos and Anambra, pointing out that arbitrary estimated billing persists alongside prolonged blackouts, forcing a debilitating reliance on expensive petrol and diesel generators.
Addressing the ruling party’s delegates, President Tinubu remained resolute that the ongoing reforms are systematically transforming the sector into a bankable, investment-driven ecosystem. “We promised an improved power supply and an end to estimated billing. In the past three years, we have closed the metering gap by supplying 2.5 million meters via the Presidential Metering Initiative. We have established a N4 trillion bond programme to settle verified legacy debts owed to GENCOs and GASCOs,” Tinubu stated. Defending the technical output of the grid under his watch, the President further claimed, “Under our administration, power generation sometimes peaked at 6000MW, 50 per cent higher than we had inherited. Our strategy is focused on redesigning the power sector into a bankable, investable, and capable sector that delivers power to homes and industries.”
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