The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) has assured Nigerians that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains fully committed to his campaign promise of ensuring stable and reliable electricity supply across the country, despite persistent challenges in the power sector more than three years after assuming office.

In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by its spokesperson and Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr. Dele Alake, the council said Nigerians must assess the President’s electricity pledge in its full context, arguing that recent public commentaries have quoted Tinubu’s promise without including his concluding qualification that he would provide adequate reasons if he failed to deliver before seeking re-election.

Alake recalled that during the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu at a meeting with members of the Organised Private Sector in Lagos had promised that Nigerians would have electricity and would no longer pay for estimated bills, stating that “a promise made will be a promise kept” and challenging Nigerians not to vote for him for a second term if he failed, unless he gave adequate reasons why he could not deliver.

The APC PCC insisted that while fixing the power sector crisis remains unfinished, the President has taken deliberate and measurable steps to address longstanding systemic challenges, noting that within two weeks of assuming office on June 9, 2023, Tinubu signed the Electricity Act 2023, which liberalised and deregulated the sector by removing it from the Exclusive List to allow states to participate in generation, distribution and transmission.

According to the Council, several states including Lagos, Enugu, Abia, Ekiti, Oyo, Kaduna and Niger have already taken advantage of the law by establishing their own electricity regulatory agencies and attracting private investment, while the administration has taken responsibility for over N6 trillion in legacy debts accumulated between 2015 and 2025 and launched the Presidential Metering Initiative to bridge the metering gap of more than seven million customers.

Alake added that the administration has also aligned tariffs to cost to restore liquidity in the electricity market while putting measures in place to protect low-income households, inherited and reviewed the Presidential Power Initiative started by former President Muhammadu Buhari with an Acceleration Agreement signed in December 2023, and secured Federal Executive Council approval in June 2026 for eight new substations and upgrade of four existing ones in key load centres.

The Council declared that fixing the electricity market and power sector is ongoing work that requires long-lead equipment and cannot be achieved overnight, stressing that President Tinubu has not deviated an inch from his commitment and will present his scorecard on the power sector and explain any outstanding challenges to Nigerians as he seeks a second mandate in 2027.