Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar via his tweet rejected the increment in electricity tariffs, dismissing it as “ill-timed and ill-advised”.
It will be recalled that on September 1, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had approved an increase in electricity tariff.
The increment will be based on hours of electricity supply as against the previous categories of residential, commercial and industrial customers with different bands (A to E) depending on the level of supply.
But this did not go down well with Atiku, who took to his twitter handle on Thursday morning and tweets, “I reject the increased electricity tariffs. Coming out of the lockdown, Nigerians need a stimulus, not an impetuous disregard for the challenges they face. Many Nigerians have not earned an income for months, due to no fault of theirs. This increase is ill-timed and ill-advised.”
