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 trued to during their tenures.
Olarenwaju said President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has no business with 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.
