Electricity: “Our best is not enough yet” – President Buhari

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that the performance of his administration in the power sector was “not good enough.”

He said that this called for more efforts by Electricity Distribution Companies to provide the needed resources and technical expertise.

Buhari assured that his government would play its own part by improving the transmission of electricity.

The Nigerian leader stated in Abuja on Wednesday when the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’ Edo Ewuare II, led members of the Edo State Council of Traditional Rulers and chiefs on a visit to the President at the Presidential Villa.

The Benin monarch, who sought Buhari’s intervention on the poor power supply situation in Edo State, had described it as a “pathetic situation.”

The President, however, appealed to Nigerians for calm, while urging them to be patient with the Discos to deliver on their mandate.

A statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, quoted him as saying that though his administration had put in its best to improve power in the past years, especially improvement in gas supplies, the performance was not good enough.

“We are building infrastructure. We are doing our best, but, obviously, our best is not good enough yet”, the Presidency quoted Buhari as saying.