ABUJA — The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council (ADC-PCC) has called out President Bola Tinubu over his 2023 campaign pledge on electricity supply, reminding him of his explicit statement urging Nigerians not to re-elect him for a second term if he failed to deliver steady power during his first term. In a press statement issued on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, the council accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to reinterpret and spin the President’s pledge rather than addressing the administration’s actual electricity performance.
The ADC-PCC asserted that more than three years after the campaign promise, Nigerian households, manufacturers, and small businesses continue to contend with persistent blackouts, repeated national grid collapses, rising electricity tariffs, and discriminatory band classifications.
The council also questioned the impact of the Presidential Metering Initiative, alleging that its implementation has fallen short of expectations and left distribution companies to continue issuing estimated bills to consumers. It highlighted that operating costs have escalated to the point where hospitality businesses and hotels now resort to power rationing during daytime hours.
Dismissing the administration’s reliance on policy frameworks—such as the Electricity Act 2023 and various government bond programs—to defend its record, the opposition council maintained that statutory filings cannot substitute for operational power supply. “An Act is not electricity. A bond prospectus does not power homes and factories. Nigerians cannot eat statutes. What Nigerians need is electricity that works, not another round of explanations and publicity,” Ologbondiyan stated.
The ADC-PCC declared that the President’s second-term condition was clear—deliver power or do not seek another mandate—and stressed that the scheduled January 16, 2027 presidential election will provide voters with an opportunity to assess the administration directly against its written and spoken promises. Meanwhile, defenders of the administration continue to argue that fundamental sector reforms, state-level market decentralization, and tariff structure realignments were essential steps to attract investments and stabilize the national power grid long-term.
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