The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has pledged to raise Nigeria’s power supply to 10,000MW in four years.

Obi made the promise on Saturday shortly after his declaration as presidential candidate of the party ahead of the next year’s general elections.

He said he would not come into government and start making excuses about why certain things cannot be done.

This is something we have carefully studied. Give us four years and we will fix Nigeria’s electricity issue. We’ll raise Nigeria’s power supply to 10,000MW.

“It is completely unacceptable that a country of over 200 million people generates and distributes only about 4,000 megawatts of electricity while millions of Nigerians still lack access to reliable power.

“Countries like South Africa and Egypt, despite having significantly smaller populations, each generate and distribute over 40,000 megawatts.

“Nigeria is not even producing one-tenth of what those countries generate, and that must change,” he said.