The Minister of Power, Adedayo Adelabu, says the challenges facing the Nigeria electricity supply industry are not technical.
Adelabu disclosed this in response to comments that he was a square peg in a round hole for heading the power ministry without the needed technical know-how.
Speaking during a radio programme in Ibadan, Oyo State, which our correspondent monitored, the power minister said the problems facing the sector are strategic and structural.
According to him, Nigeria needs a problem-solving specialist to get the problems solved and not necessarily an engineer.
“Our problem in the power sector is not technical, sincerely. It is purely strategic, structural; and it is a problem-solving specialist that we need,” he stated.
The minister declared that President Bola Tinubu did not appoint him to manufacture transformers or power cables but to look at the hurdles and proffer solutions.
“They’ve not appointed me as minister to start manufacturing transformers, meters, power cables, towers, or electric poles. No! What they have appointed me to do is to look at the industry and see where the hurdles are. Where are the bottlenecks? To resolve it and make the sector flow.”
