Nigerians have called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, as an outage lingers for 11 days in Northern Nigerian states.

The President of the Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo, and the Lead Director of the Centre for Social Justice, Eze Onyekpere, disclosed this in separate interviews with DAILY POST on Monday.

The call for Adelabu’s sack comes days after Tinubu reshuffled his cabinet over incessant national grid collapses in Nigeria.

The North East and North West regions of Nigeria have been wallowing in darkness since October 21, 2024.

The region, representing at least 15 states in Nigeria, has been facing the situation after insurgents vandalised the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line.

In a statement, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday charged the Minister of Power, Adelabu, and the responsible agency to restore supply to the region, but darkness persists as of the time of filing this report.

Adelabu, on his part, said power would be restored to the region within five days.

This comes after days of assurance of temporary power restoration by the Transmission Company of Nigeria.

TCN had consistently assured that power would be temporarily restored through the Ugwuaji APIR 330kV Line; however, citizens in the region still await power restoration as they count their losses economically.

Earlier, it was reported that the office of the National Security Adviser vowed to coordinate other security agencies to ensure the repair of the Shiroro-Kaduna vandalised transmission line.