President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that the poor power situation in Nigeria would soon be stabilized.
He said his administration was committed to realizing the objective, stressing that the resources were available.
The president spoke at a joint press conference with visiting president of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe at the presidential villa, Abuja on Tuesday.
He said: “They say seeing is believing. You can see the efforts private investors are making. We are also building pipelines but it is not as formidable as what Dangote is doing. We are improving on it. We also have the NLNG that is helping is to liquefy the gas and then turn it into gas with modern technology and modern technology is making it flexible.
“And If you will recall, I made mention to President of Benin. We have power problem and Benin has power problem because they depend on us and we are working very hard to stabilise the situation. The resources are available, the technology is available we are trying to stabilise the situation.
“If we improve power which means our productivity can be competitive and God willing, we are going to achieve our objectives.
“We also discuss the unfortunate incidents in South Sudan, Burundi. It is an agonising situation. Several citizens are living under primitive conditions. We hope at the AU meeting, we will be able to stabilise the situation in South Sudan and Burundi with the efforts being made.”