Tuesday, March 17, 2015
CDD Challenges APC, PDP On Power Sector
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The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), has called for a live debate between All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on plans to improve the energy sector ahead of the 2015 general elections.
With the theme, “Improving Power Supply in Nigeria: What is your party’s master plan?”, the inter-party debate scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2015, Barcelona Hotel, Blantyre Street, Wuse 2, Abuja, would be engaging the respective parties’ plan towards improving power supply in Nigeria’s economy.
In the statement signed by CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, she noted that despite the commitment to increase electricity supply in Nigeria to as high as 7,000 megawatts by the Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, in 2014, the year witnessed continuous fall of electricity supply and it has not gotten any better in the first quarter of 2015.
“The inability to address the swindling power generating capacity of the country since handing over to private investors in November 2013, poses serious economic growth challenge to both the formal and informal sectors in the country. There is no way economic activities could progress amidst low power supply,” Ms Idayat noted in the statement.
Given the projection that Nigeria needs about 200,000 MW supply of electricity in 2030 (as calculated by the Energy Commission of Nigeria) to achieve its full economic potential, the statement averred that it is important to know the plans of the two leading political parties to achieve this noble goal.
“It is thus against this backdrop that CDD is organizing this live debate to provide platform for party leaders to tell Nigerians what their parties will do to address the challenges if elected into power in 2015.”
The CDD Director stated further that the last five editions of Nigeria Political Parties Discussion Series debate, which the political parties keenly participated, were irrefutably an eye opener to the result-based plans and programmes of the political parties aimed at addressing development challenges confronting the country.
The National Publicity Secretaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Muhammed, have confirmed they would be attending the debate. The debate will be aired live on African Independent Television from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 19, 2015. The debate is supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
With the theme, “Improving Power Supply in Nigeria: What is your party’s master plan?”, the inter-party debate scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2015, Barcelona Hotel, Blantyre Street, Wuse 2, Abuja, would be engaging the respective parties’ plan towards improving power supply in Nigeria’s economy.
In the statement signed by CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, she noted that despite the commitment to increase electricity supply in Nigeria to as high as 7,000 megawatts by the Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, in 2014, the year witnessed continuous fall of electricity supply and it has not gotten any better in the first quarter of 2015.
“The inability to address the swindling power generating capacity of the country since handing over to private investors in November 2013, poses serious economic growth challenge to both the formal and informal sectors in the country. There is no way economic activities could progress amidst low power supply,” Ms Idayat noted in the statement.
Given the projection that Nigeria needs about 200,000 MW supply of electricity in 2030 (as calculated by the Energy Commission of Nigeria) to achieve its full economic potential, the statement averred that it is important to know the plans of the two leading political parties to achieve this noble goal.
“It is thus against this backdrop that CDD is organizing this live debate to provide platform for party leaders to tell Nigerians what their parties will do to address the challenges if elected into power in 2015.”
The CDD Director stated further that the last five editions of Nigeria Political Parties Discussion Series debate, which the political parties keenly participated, were irrefutably an eye opener to the result-based plans and programmes of the political parties aimed at addressing development challenges confronting the country.
The National Publicity Secretaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Muhammed, have confirmed they would be attending the debate. The debate will be aired live on African Independent Television from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 19, 2015. The debate is supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
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