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Engr Razaq Obe, the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Ondo State, has appealed to the Federal Government and president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to sustain the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI).<\/p>\n

He made this call in an interview with Outlook Media on Thursday at the just concluded Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja (NIES2023).<\/p>\n

According to him, the federal government must fulfill its promise to significantly improve the country\u2019s power sector. He noted that realising the PPI would impact Nigeria\u2019s power sector meaningfully.<\/p>

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Obe said the country\u2019s power supply capacity would increase from 4 gigawatts to 25 gigawatts if the initiative is fully implemented.
\n\u201cThe presidential power initiative is one of the most successful initiatives by this current government. We want to encourage the incoming government to ensure that by 2025, the 25 gigawatts promised is delivered to Nigerians.
\n\u201cWe are happy to see all those transformers coming from Germany to Nigeria; we are happy to see them installed at different substations. We are appealing to the federal government to make this come through. It will grow Nigeria\u2019s available power from 4 gigawatts to 25 gigawatts which will be a quantum leap for our country. We appeal to the federal government not to relent\u201d.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s NIES with the theme, \u2018Global Perspectives for a Sustainable Energy Future\u2019 kick-started on the 16th and ended on the 20th of April 2023. The PPI is a \u00a363 million deal between the federal government and Siemens to boost Nigeria\u2019s power capacity. The Federal Executive Council approved it in December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engr Razaq Obe, the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Ondo State, has appealed to the Federal Government and president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to sustain the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":71165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[10282,1019],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-71164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-engr-razaq-obe","tag-ondo-state"],"yoast_head":"\nSustain Presidential Power Initiative \u2013 Ondo Commissioner, Obe Tells FG - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Engr Razaq Obe, the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Ondo State, has appealed to the Federal Government and presiden\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/sustain-presidential-power-initiative-ondo-commissioner-obe-tells-fg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sustain Presidential Power Initiative \u2013 Ondo Commissioner, Obe Tells FG - 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