Photos: Tinubu Flags Off ‘Light Up Nigeria Project’ in Enugu • Adelabu Solicits Stakeholders’ Support

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Monday, February 26, flagged off the Light Up Nigeria project in Enugu, the capital city of Enugu State, Nigeria, as part of efforts by the federal government to improve energy supply to industrial clusters in the southeast geopolitical zone of the country.

Senator Shettima, who spoke during the Light Up Nigeria Southeast Business Roundtable that was held in Enugu, also disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had vowed to return the southeast geo-political zone as the nation’s industrial powerhouse.

The event was to launch an initiative to ensure dedicated power supply to industrial clusters across the country, with the southeast as a major bloc.

Shettima described the project as a transformational journey and a renewal of hope for industrialists and investors in the Southeast region.

He said, “I am pleased to witness the second launch of this strategic collaboration between the Niger Delta Power Holding Company and its invaluable customers. We gathered here to embark on a strategic journey for the light-up Nigeria in the Southeastern States.

“This marks the renewal of hope for investors and industrialists. This is not a ribbon-cutting charade; this is a calculated endeavour to re-engineer our economy.

“The project serves as a long-awaited solution to the power supply that has undermined our economy over the past decades.

“This intervention is a calculated endeavour to re-engineer our economy, oil the wheels of industries, and stabilise our electricity supply industry. Power is a sinequanon for any industrial takeoff. No matter the efforts committed to industrial development, if there’s no power, there can be no industrialization.”

Shettima added: “The economic fortune of Nigeria remains the critical concern of President Tinubu, as we believe that if the power sector works, Nigeria works too. So we must make the project work and make Southeast work.

“The Southeast is an industrial powerhouse, and its economic fortune remains a critical aspect of President Bola Tinubu. He wants Southeast to work again. If the southeast works, Nigeria works.

“Some describe the Igbo as the Nigerian Jews: geographically mobile, economically enterprising, and educationally ambitious. You have the hope of the nation right in our midst. The hope of the nation rests with Ndigbo.”

The vice president explained that the light-up project is dear to President Tinubu, whose determination is to improve power supply to industrial clusters in the Southeast.

Shettima, who assured that the project would soon be delivered, called on all stakeholders to join hands to ensure the success of the project.

In his address, the Minister of Power,Chief Adebayo Adelabu, solicited the support of all relevant stakeholders in improving the power sector.

According to Adelabu,the Tinubu administration is working all around to set a new agenda for power so as to improve our economy.

The flag-off had in attendance Chairman of the South East Governors Forum Senator Hope Uzodinma, Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter MBA, among others.

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