Untold Setback And Hardship – Peter Obi Reacts As National Grid Suffers First Collapse In 2025

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has condemned the incessant collapse of the National Grid in Nigeria.

He lamented that the collapse has now become a recurring decimal in Nigeria’s national life.

Obi submitted that the constant collapses have caused untold setbacks and hardship for households and businesses in the country.

The former Governor of Anambra State made his position known in a statement on Saturday while reacting to the most recent collapse of the grid.

Naijaonpoint reported that barely ten days into the new year, Nigeria’s national power grid experienced its first major collapse of 2025 on Saturday, plunging the nation into a widespread blackout.

This is the 13th grid failure in the past 13 months, and many Nigerians are frustrated by the recurring outages.

On his part, Peter Obi blamed the incessant collapses on the lack of commitment from the leaders of Nigeria to the development of the country.

He appealed tp the government to improve the power sector and other apects of national life so citizens won’t continue to suffer economic burdens.

“National grid collapse is now a recurring decimal.

“I have just read the reports of the collapse of our national grid, just 11 days into the new year.

“Most of last year, we faced recurrent national grid collapses. That occurred about 12 times in the year.

“The untold setback and hardship it brought on households and businesses was immeasurable.

“Further reports showed that Nigeria has borrowed over $3.23 billion in the last four years to fix its electricity problems, and yet the country cannot produce more than about 4,500 megawatts of power for the people.

“Instead of making significant progress, our recurrent occurrences of grid collapse have continued to characterize our power sector.

“One then wonders where all the funds borrowed for the power sector have gone into.

“The lack of sincere commitment by us, the leaders, to the true development of the nation, followed by the widespread corruption eating through every sector of our national existence, has continued to drive retrogression and backwardness in our nation.

“This is a new year, and again, I will appeal to the government to make it a fresh start by building on the lessons of yesteryear to now improve every aspect of the nation, including the power sector, without which households and small businesses will continue to struggle under immeasurable economic burdens.

“A New Nigeria Remains POssible. -PO,” he wrote.