President Tinubu Approves e-Vehicles For Use In Northeast Nigeria

President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has approved the deployment of e-vehicles in the Northeast region to ease mobility and reduce transportation fares across the States.

The President gave the approval on Wednesday at the State House, Abuja, when he received the leadership of the Northeast Development Commission NEDC, led by Mohammed Alkali, the commission’s CEO/Managing Director.

Alkali told State House Correspondents that the Commission, following a thorough analysis of the comparative advantage of Compressed Natural gas-powered vehicles in the region, the NEDC, concluded on the deployment of e-vehicles across the six States of the region.

The MD/CEO of NEDC hinted that the Commission as part of its plans intends to create modular solar power units across the states.

This, he emphasised would serve as a standby power source for the e-vehicles in case of electricity power outage.

“In addition, we’re also considering establishing five KVA or 10 KVA solar-powered grid, stand-alone, so that this can be backup for the inadequacy of the power supplies, so we’re aware of all these challenges, but sometimes with challenges come opportunities. When we start, yes, we may have one or two challenges, but we already made a plan to see that besides the usual generating plant, we are also going to back up with some stand-alone solar power grid to power this station we are going to build”.

Dominica Nwabufo