.….It’s a National Shame- Peter Obi
By Ola Kay
Nigeria’s power generation house, the national grid has collapsed on Saturday, making it the third time in one week, asking a bewildered citizens to lament what critics have described as a national shame.
Latest in the series of collapses witnessed, power generation went off on Saturday morning at about 8:16 am
Earlier, the same grid had gone comatose on Monday and on Tuesday before it was being restored.
A report by the Punch newspaper stated that following the development in the two instances, power generation nosedived to 3,042 megawatts at 8 am and peaked at 3,968MW at 7 am.
And the power generation further fell to 47MW as of 9 am this morning.
The cause of the collapse had yet to be made known as at the time of this report.
Meanwhile, the minister of Power had responded to the repeated collapse of the national grid as inevitable. This may have infuriated the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, who described the situation as a national shame.
The politician and businessman who posted his reaction on his X handle attributed the constant failure of the grid system to leadership deficit. He said this amounted to leadership and policy failure at the highest levels.
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