Dr Adedeji Adeleke, billionaire businessman and father of music star, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido, says he is responsible for generating 15 per cent of Nigeria’s electricity supply.
He said this at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s General Conference Annual Council in Maryland, United States, on Tuesday.
The billionaire business disclosed that he is about expanding his $2 billion investment in the power sector through constructing a 1,250-megawatt power plant.
He said the project would be the largest in Nigeria upon completion in January 2025.
He said: “I am a businessman in Nigeria; I’m in the electricity business. I own power plants. I generate presently about 15 percent of the electricity needs of Nigeria.
“I have Chinese engineering companies that work for me. I am building and almost complete by January, by the grace of God, tenth new power plant that will be the biggest thermal power plant in Nigeria.
“It’s a 1,250-megawatt power plant to become operational in January.”
Adeleke further stated an unnamed government official threatened to prevent the execution of the project, saying: “During the course of the design and getting the permit, we ran into difficult government officials. For environmental reasons, our permit was denied, and the particular government official that I held a meeting with told me to my face that my project would never see the light of the day.
“But while he was saying that, I was saying in my mind that this guy is talking as if he is God. I was saying in my mind that God should listen to him; Because he is not God, whatever he is saying is null and void.”
He subsequently narrated how he got the permit when the official fell ill and was flown abroad.
