Power Supply: Buhari Is Defeating Jonathan

Editor’s note: Rotimi Fasan, who wrote this article for Vanguard, highlighted some things which the immediate past administration, led by Goodluck Jonathan, could not do in relation to power suppl, which the present government has embarked on since president Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in on May 29.

IT was too obvious to be  overlooked, but I first noticed the relative improvement in power supply right from the weekend Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as president. I made alternative power supply plans to watch the live streaming of the president’s inauguration even though I ended up seeing just the tail end of it.

But that was because I was busy at some work. Otherwise, there was constant and steady supply of power all through the transmission of the inauguration ceremonies and thereafter. I thought like others around me that ‘NEPA’ (would Nigerians ever accept that NEPA has since been dead?) was in a celebratory mood and would soon live off the euphoria of welcoming a new government into office.
Is the present Nigerian president winning the battle against poor power supply?

Is the present Nigerian president winning the battle against poor power supply, as against his predecessor?

We expected things to change and ‘ NEPA’ to go back to its old ways in a matter of days. But rather than the situation changing from bad to worse, it has since remained the same more or less. Of course, there have been power cuts. But not in the manner we had come to know it. Nigerians may not know for how long this honeymoon-like experience would last (and they would rather want things to get better going by the general consensus of opinion in the media and among ordinary people), but they are sure of something if not of anything else: they have more access to steady and vastly improved power supply since the end of May 2015 than at any time, perhaps, in the previous six years of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.