Gov Mutfwang clarifies Tinubu’s no electricity comment during Jos visit

Governor Mutfwang of Plateau State has said that it is lone the runway of the Jos airdrome that does not person electricity, noting that it is not the full Plateau State.

Mutfwang made this clarification connected Wednesday portion fielding questions successful an interrogation connected Arise Television.

This comes aft President Bola Tinubu visited the authorities implicit the sidesplitting of galore residents. He stopped astatine the airport, complaining that they had nary electricity.

Reacting, the politician said, “The President said the airdrome runway has nary light. No 1 tin accidental Plateau State has nary light.

“He didn’t accidental determination was nary airy successful Plateau State. By the way, Plateau authorities is portion of the nationalist grid. But isolated from the nationalist grid, we are privileged arsenic a authorities to besides person the archetypal hydro electrical presumption successful Nigeria.

“It is simply a known information that the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, which owns the airport, knows that the Jos airdrome does not person lights connected its runway. This is simply a speech we are having with FAAN astatine the moment.

“Last year, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding connected however to upgrade the airdrome to an planetary cargo airport, and I’m definite that erstwhile this is afloat done, each these issues volition beryllium addressed and this volition beryllium a happening of the past.”

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