QUOTE OF THE DAY"I am confident enough to allow history & the Nigerian people to judge my performance on the task that i accepted from the President...."



On a day that mixed reactions greeted his sudden exit as Minister of Power after 14 months on the saddle, Professor Barth Nnaji, yesterday, said history and Nigerians would judge his performance.
From a miserly 2,800 Mega Watts of electricity available when he took over in July 2011, power supply rose steadily to 4,348 MW as of Tuesday evening when Nnaji resigned his post.
Saluting President Goodluck Jonathan and millions of Nigerians, who supported him in his effort to improve the situation of public power supply in the country, Nnaji said: “I am confident enough to allow history and the Nigerian people to judge my performance on the task that I accepted from the President.
“I feel particularly proud of the fact that my exit comes at a time that the administration has been able to generate and supply an unprecedented quantum of steady, reliable electric power in the history of our nation,” he said in a statement by his Special Assistant (Media), Mr. Ogbuagu Anikwe.

Nnaji spoke as the Federal Government and former Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai disagreed over whether or not Nnaji’s exit would affect the on-going power reforms. While el-Rufai feared that Nnaji’s ouster would set the reforms back, the Federal Government countered that the development would boost the privatisation programme.
This came as workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, Trade Union Congress, TUC and Joint Action Front, JAF, celebrated Nnaji’s resignation and said that the development vindicated their position that privatisation was not the solution to the country’s power problem.
QUOTE OF THE DAY....."I am confident enough to allowhistory & the Nigerian people to judge my performance on the task that i accepted from the President...."