Primate Ayodele Counters Pres.Jonathan On Power Stability

           Power‘ll remain stable in 2016-Primate Ayodele

          No! Power‘ll remain stable in 2013- President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan recently countered the submission of Primate Elijah Ayodele, who earlier, in his 2013 predictions announced that power would be permanently stable in Nigerian in 2016,

The reputable prophet, who is known for the accuracy of his predictions, in August 2012, while intimating the press with the 2013 predictions said:’’ Electricity will be permanent stable in Nigeria 2016”.

While launching a counter-attack on the prophet’s prediction as regard power situation in the country, President Jonathan, in far way Islamabad, Pakistan, while talking to Nigerians who are living in Pakistan said power would be stable in June 2013.’’At that time quite a number of cities will begin to have 24-hour light’’.

The President, who attributed transmission problems as one of the factors that is hindering the constant supplies of power, equally blamed the experienced set backs in some areas to flooding.

His words: ’’We have the major flood that really set u back in some areas, otherwise we promised that those in the Diaspora, when they come home this Christmas, they would see significant changes. The kind of airports they will pass through, then the roads they will drive from the airports to the cities and when they enter the cities may be you are used to not seeing light and putting on generator, you will not begin your stay by talking about the price of diesel again because you will have light throughout. We may not be able to achieve all that by December, because within the flood period, we could not work. Things that we had to finish by December were halted within the flood, there was stagnation everyday’’.

President Jonathan, who had earlier promised Nigerians stable electricity in December, 2012 tacitly made a U-turn, shifting further the pole on the actualization of stable power in the country to 2013.

 In a similar development, Primate Ayodele, predicted possible food crisis in his predictions, but the Federal Government has through its Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, has assured Nigerians that the country would not suffer any food crisis as a result of the flood disasters in some parts of the country.

Adeshina, who recently, in a statement, noted that though the flood caused a huge challenge on food security in many parts of Nigeria, the country would not experience food shortage.

His words:’’ let me assure you that the Federal Government is taking all measures to mitigate the impacts of the flood. Nigerians will not have famine. We will not have a food crisis. We will recover from the flood.’’

Adeshina further informed that government‘s efforts, this year alone, from maize, rice, cassava and sorghum, had added a total of 8.1 million metric tonnes of food for domestic food supply. That this was 70 per cent higher than the target of five million metric tonnes that was set for 2013 and 41 per cent of the total target that was set for 2015.