The Minister Of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has revealed that the country's power situation will remain epileptic due to insufficient power distribution unless more turbines are activated to improve redistribution.
The former Governor Of Lagos also attributed the current drop in power supply to faulty turbines which are now being worked upon.
Fashola said: "Yesterday morning we had some outages in Jebba but I am happy to report now that all the four turbines that were down, three have been restored, so there is stability now.
"It is important why the power coming from Aba is defining, its part of what I've spoken about. There is not enough power in the country.
"So how do you share what is not enough such that everybody gets enough? Its difficult, if not impossible.
"So what we need to do is to get more power on. So about 200 megawatts coming from there is good news for the market,"
The Minister however expressed optimism that the Buhari led administration was still on course in its quest to achieve a 10,000 megawatts target. Fashola opines that if we overcome the problems caused by vandalism, we may well be on our way to stability.
"Everyone of us must contribute something now to solve the problem; it a problem we can solve. That will reduce the number of people who are contributing to being the problem.
"So those who are vandalizing electricity assets, those who are selling stolen cable, those who are not paying their bills and those diverting electricity are all problem.