Nigerians will be happy to celebrate Christmas without need for generators – Jonathan

On Wednesday, President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the newly reconstituted Presidential Action Committee on Power and Presidential Task Force on Power.

During the ceremony, the president directed the Minister of State for Power, Mr Darius Ishaku, to take charge of the power ministry in the interim. He also appointed, Mr Reynolds Dagogo-Jack of National Integrated Power Project, NIPP, as the Chairman of the reconstituted Presidential Task Force on Power.

The president then promised that he would forward names of replacements for ministers of defence and power to the senate for approval, immediately the Senate resumed from recess on September 22. According to him, “Definitely immediately the National Assembly comes back, especially the Senate, we will clear the two vacancies that we have. They will get cleared and we will place people accordingly so that the Ministry of Power will come up.

“But, in the interim, the Minister of State Power is holding on to that. But whether the Minister of Power comes or not, we want to reconstitute the two teams because Nigerians will not be happy if we relapse and I believe that as we progress from now till December if Nigerians can go home in December and do their parties without generators and can drive to their States without gutters (potholes) on our roads stopping them, I think the rating of government will improve. So we must work hard to get to this level.”

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  1. Like I have been saying and I will keep saying it. Mr President has good intentions for Nigerians but pple working with him and all these so called god father Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ major cause of him faiking in his promises. Mr President, weldone sir. I won’t fail to mention this. I JƱڪτ̲̅ Mr President can see my comment. Terrible things Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ happening in my area when it comes to light issue. While some areas Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ really enjoying dis light thing, some Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ really suffering too. We in our area Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ N☺† enjoying it at all. For T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ past 3 months, we have N☺† seen light in my area. To worsen it, T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ cable supplying light from transformer to T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ poles has been stolen. We all contributed to purchase T̶̲̥̅̊ђȊ̝̊̅ڪ
    Transformer since govt didn’t remember us. It has been bought now, no light and and T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ cable has been stolen. I have been ironing my clothes in T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ office for T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ past 3 months JƱڪτ̲̅ imagine dt. I stay at unity estate, ita-oluwo, ikorodu, lagos. Pls come to our aid. We believe dt T̶̲̥̅̊ђέ cable was stolen by those who know abt its importance and those who Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ in business of giving light. Pls sir, help us, thank Ɣ☺ΰ.