El Niño: Nigerian govt is aware of hazard, but no mild – Utomi blasts Tinubu over blackout

A professor of political financial system, Pat Utomi, has blasted the administration of President Bola Tinubu over the worsening electrical energy disaster in Nigeria.

In a submit on his verified X deal with on Sunday, Utomi warned that hundreds of thousands of residents have been left with out energy provide even because the El Niño local weather risk approaches.

He mentioned the individuals who have plunged Nigeria into the electrical energy disaster are absolutely conscious of the El Niño warnings and the hazard the local weather phenomenon might pose to the nation.

“They know what is coming; they know Nigeria is among the countries that could be affected, yet millions of citizens have gone weeks without a reliable electricity supply,” Utomi mentioned.

According to him, a authorities that can’t assure its residents dependable electrical energy within the face of an approaching local weather risk has loads of clarification to present.

He mentioned the unusual Nigerian can not proceed to be handled as an afterthought.