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Nigeria: Leave Poor Power Supply to God -Obasanjo
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
23 July 2008
Posted to the web 23 July 2008
Lagos
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday urged Nigerians to leave the poor power supply to God.
"Whatever you don't have, then leave everything to God," he said while speaking to newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Ikeja, Lagos.
Daily Champion recalls that the House of Representatives committee on power and steel, recently probed the handling of $16 million National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) by his administration.
Both Obasanjo and his key ministers were summoned by the Ndudi Elumel led committee to explain why the nation is still experiencing deplorable power situation despite the hugged money claimed to have expended on the power sub sector.
Though Obasanjo did appear before the committee on the excuse that he was sick, he sent a written reply where he defended the contracts awarded by his administration for the NIPP.
However, yesterday the former President advised Nigerians to leave the situation of electricity to God.
On his political loyalists, Chief Obasanjo insisted that he was still getting on well with all those who believed in him politically.
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"All my political children are good children If you have 'na your toro' (three pence)," he said humourously.
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