Abubakar Aliyu, the new minister of power, says he is coming
to add value to the electricity sector.
On September 1, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked Saleh
Mamman as the minister of power and replaced him with Aliyu, then minister of
state for works and housing.
Speaking on Monday when he assumed duty at the ministry,
Aliyu said he is not coming to perform magic in the sector.
He asked all stakeholders in the industry to work together to ensure adequate power supply to consumers.
“I am here to work together with all of you. I listened
carefully when some of you introduced yourselves with various titles working in
the ministry of power. I want those titles to be translated to production of
power to Nigerians from generation, transmission to distribution. That is when
our titles will make more meaning,” Aliyu said.
“Otherwise, time would come when we would be ashamed to
mention our names with those titles. So, I want to ask everyone from the
permanent secretary down to the smallest on the ladder by rank in any part of
the ministry of power to be dedicated and committed to the task ahead.
“I am not an electrical engineer or having anything to do
with power in the past but I am an engineer and I know when something is going
wrong I will detect it. I will not allow it and I will try my best to make
amends, together with you or without you, because that is my mandate, to ensure
that we succeed.
“Don’t look at me as the minister of power that I have come
to make magic. No, I am not a magician. I am coming to add value to what you
have already been doing. So let us work together in honesty and full
commitment.”
The new power minister added that he was sent to the
ministry to improve power generation, transmission, and distribution.
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