Sowore had on Thursday called out Atiku and his former boss,
Obasanjo, for using the huge amount of money to procure darkness when Atiku
complained about collapse of the national grid that threw the country into
blackout.
However, in an
exclusive interview monitored on Arise TV
Friday, Atiku, when asked to comment on the criticism, said Obasanjo’s administration
initiated building of nine additional power stations. He also said that the successive governments had improved on it, adding
that Sowore knows nothing about policy and Nigeria, because he lives mostly
outside the country.
Atiku explained that When they came in 1999, the total
generation was about 4,000 Megawatts. “We initiated the building of nine
additional power stations and by the time those nine were finished, the
capacity has gone up from 4,000 Megawatts to about 13,000 Megawatts. Unfortunately,
there was no corresponding increase as far as the transmission lines are
concerned. There is no way that, when your transmission lines cannot evacuate
the power that you are producing, it will not collapse. So they keep on
collapsing".
He further noted that the Jonathan government continued and completed
the additional power stations and that is why anytime there is an increase in
power generation, you have a transmission system that cannot evacuate the
power; then there will be a collapse.
According to
Atiku, “So, Sowore doesn’t even know because he lives outside this country and
comes in every four years and contests the presidency and fails and travels out
again. “What does he know about this? Nothing, absolutely nothing.”
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