The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has rejected the sale of ten power facilities and has filed suit to prevent the Federal Government from privatizing the plants.InformationGuideNigeria
The NGF announced that its attorneys have taken steps to prevent the administration of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari from selling the power plants included in the National Integrated Power Projects.
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The Niger Delta Power Holding Company, which is owned by the federal, state, and local governments, is a power producing and distribution company that monitors the NIPPs’ implementation.NYSC Portal
The 36 state governors, under their chairman, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, issued a statement on November 23, 2022, to voice their discontent with the FG’s decision, following a teleconference meeting held on Tuesday.
The statement partly reads, “The Forum, following its advocacy that the proposed privatisation of 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) should be stopped, instructed its lawyers to approach the Federal High Court which, at present has issued a court order restraining all the parties in the suit from taking any step or action that will make or render the outcome of the motion on notice seeking for interlocutory injunction nugatory.JAMB Portal
“The effect of the order of the court is that respondents cannot proceed with the proposed sale of the power plants belonging to the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHCL) until the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.”
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