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Speaker says PDP 'wasted' N2.74trn on power

Speaker Yakubu Dogara has blamed Nigeria's current power crisis on the PDP government.

Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara

Dogara stated this in Abuja at a workshop organised by the House of Representatives to find solutions to the perennial power outage in the country on Tuesday, February 7, 2017.

“The most important question is what happened to the N2.74 trillion spent on the sector from 1999 - 2015?,” Dogara said.

“Why is it that the more we spent on the power sector, the more darkness we attract?” the Speaker added.

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Dogara expressed confidence that the array of stakeholders gathered at the event were capable of dealing with the issues, questions and puzzles that exist in the power sector.

The House organised the workshop to complement efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration towards improving Nigeria’s poor electricity supply.

The two-day event was organised to examine extant legislations and regulatory framework guiding the Nigerian power sector and also to determine the need for amendments or enactment of new laws that will galvanise the sector.

It would be recalled that Dogara was elected to the House in 2007 on the platform of the PDP until the 2015 general elections when he crossed to the All Progressives Congress and subsequently became the Speaker.

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