Obasanjo blocked my efforts to supply electricity to Akwa Ibom despite building a power plant — Attah

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A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has alleged that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo stopped him from distributing electricity to the people of the South-South state after he built a 191 megawatts power generation station.

Attah, who was Akwa Ibom governor from May 1999 to May 2007, the same time Obasanjo was Nigeria’s democratically elected president, said the then president instructed that the electricity generated from the Akwa Ibom power plant be added to the national grid.

The octogenarian was a guest on the Friday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.

Attah decried the current constitution and arrangement in the country, saying a new constitution and federal arrangement will enable federating units to have powers to be coordinates and not subordinates.

He said what we have now is an authoritarian system called the Constitution because it was imposed by the military. “We need to go back to an agreeable constitution by our founding fathers at Independence,” he said, expressing disappointment that President Bola Tinubu has not started moves to make Nigeria have true federalism…