Demola Olarenwaju, the Senior Political Assistant to African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has called on the Federal Government to dissolve the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
Speaking via a statement on X on Tuesday, Olarenwaju argued that maintaining a central rural electrification body contradicts true federalism, particularly when state governments now hold constitutional powers to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity within their borders.
The call comes less than 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu appointed former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose as the Chairman of the REA alongside 25 other federal appointments.
Olarenwaju pointed out that previous administrations under Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2009 and Goodluck Jonathan through the Stephen Oronsaye Report had previously evaluated scrapping or restructuring the agency to eliminate federal duplication.
"In a truly federated country where power is the business of the states as Tinubu claims, FG has no business anymore with Rural Electrification and any state that prioritises power should source it for its people.
You can’t claim states can generate, transmit and distribute power then still hold on to a rural electrification agency that bypasses the State Governments."
Olarenwaju urged the administration to remain consistent with its fiscal and constitutional restructuring policy by allowing state governments to handle local power projects directly rather than relying on federal intervention agencies.
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