{"id":170439,"date":"2025-07-20T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:41:42","slug":"adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"ADC Reminds Tinubu on Electricity Promise to Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of breaking his campaign promise of providing Nigerians with 24-hour electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on Sunday by the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said more than 90 million Nigerians still have no access to electricity, over two years into President Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we just want to take some time to remind President Tinubu that he promised Nigerians uninterrupted electricity within four years. Yes, that\u2019s right, Mr. President promised us 24\/7 power. All by himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet today, the facts speak louder than Mr. President\u2019s penchant for broken promises.Since Tinubu took office, electricity tariffs have jumped by 240%, but the grid has collapsed 12 times, plunging millions of homes and businesses into repeated darkness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 90 million Nigerians still lack electricity, and those who have access only get four to six hours a day. In rural communities, most of Nigeria\u2019s 50 million families remain completely off the grid, with no access to electricity at all,\u201d Abdullahi wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>He added that despite all this, there has been no major reform, no clear roadmap<\/p>\n<p>and no urgency from the Tinubu-led administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are past the halfway mark of this administration, and millions of Nigerians are still charging their phones at mobile charging kiosks, and spending hundreds of thousands to fuel their generators,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the President that he once promised to fix electricity or not expect votes in return, and said Nigerians have not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The ADC called on President Tinubu to explain why the electricity situation is not improving and asked how much longer Nigerians must wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of breaking his campaign promise of providing Nigerians with 24-hour electricity. In a post shared on Sunday by the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said more than 90 million Nigerians still have no access to electricity, over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,508,254,945],"class_list":["post-170439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-electricity","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ADC Reminds Tinubu on Electricity Promise to Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of breaking his campaign promise of provid ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ADC Reminds Tinubu on Electricity Promise to Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of breaking his campaign promise of provid ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-20T19:28:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-20T21:41:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753035205.811001.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ADC Reminds Tinubu on Electricity Promise to Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-20T19:28:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-20T21:41:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":295,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753035205.811001.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"electricity\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-reminds-tinubu-on-electricity-promise-to-nigerians\",\"name\":\"ADC Reminds Tinubu on Electricity Promise to Nigerians - 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