The Senior Political Assistant to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Demola Olarenwaju, on Tuesday, suggested that the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) should be scrapped like former presidents Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan tried to during their tenures.
Olarenwaju said President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government
has no business with rural electrification because states should be able
to provide power in their domains.
Posting on X, Atiku’s aide wrote: “The Act itself is now
compromised, and REA should be scrapped as Yar’Adua tried to do in 2009 and then
Jonathan came in and asked Oronsaye to do a more holistic review of the entire
FG.
“In a truly federated country where power is the business of
the states as Tinubu claims, FG has no business anymore with Rural
Electrification and any state that prioritises power should source it for its
people.
“The Govt should be consistent: you can’t claim states can
generate, transmit and distribute power then still hold on to a rural
electrification agency that bypasses the State Governments.”
This comes less than 24 hours after Tinubu named a former
governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, as the Chairman of REA.
Fayose’s appointment was part of the 25 Nigerians Tinubu
appointed to head some federal ministries.
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