Power: Four years enough to make meaningful impact ― Obi

The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi has said four years are enough for a government to make meaningful impact in sectors of the economy, saying the problem with Nigeria was “more due to inefficiency in programme implementation rather than policy formulation.”

A statement by Obi’s media aide, Mr Valentine Obienyem, made available to newsmen, on Wednesday, said the PDP presidential running mate gave an example of what the Abubakar Atiku presidency would do in the power sector, quoting him as saying that four years were enough to make a meaningful impact in the sector.

According to Obi, “this APC government has for long formulated different, beautiful policies, but the problem is with implementation.”

He said, “the Atiku government would concentrate on project implementation to a measurable level Nigerians would see, feel and appreciate.”

On how many MegaWatts of power Atiku government would add, Obi who insisted that four years was enough for meaningful improvement in the sector, said, “there is a clear roadmap that would be discussed in details during longer programmes.”

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Obi who lampooned the present government at the centre for what he said was “its lack of proper projects implementation and transparency,” claimed that “the quantum of money already said to have been borrowed did not match the projects that were actually executed.”

Oni also held that the problem was not with borrowing, “but actually utilising the money borrowed for productive projects rather than in consumption and waste, as rampantly witnessed in Nigeria till today.”

He submitted that “to get Nigeria working again, the inefficiency, incompetence and anti-people policies that have long characterised the APC-led government of Nigeria must be reversed.”