Nigeria, March 16 -- When President Bola Tinubu inaugurated Adebayo Adelabu as the Minister of Power, alongside 44 others cleared by the Senate for appointment as Ministers on August 21, 2023, he most probably knew that the man knows next to nothing about power generation, transmission, and distribution. Yet, he was appointed as Minister of Power, to provide electricity for millions of Nigerians.

During his campaign for the office, Tinubu had told Nigerians that he intends to turn the sector around for good and promised to do so within two years. However, his administration would clock three years in office in a few months' time, and the power sector is still in a state of limbo. Adelabu seems to have no answer to the intractable probl...