Nigeria Democratic Congress Presidential candidate Peter Obi has vowed to more than double Nigeria’s electricity generation to 10,000 megawatts within four years if elected president in 2027, describing the country’s current power output as “completely unacceptable.”

The NDC 2027 presidential candidate made the bold commitment while drawing sharp comparisons between Nigeria’s chronic power deficit and the energy output of its African peers, arguing that the status quo was no longer defensible for a nation of over 200 million people.

“It is completely unacceptable that a country of over 200 million people generates and distributes only about 4,000 megawatts of electricity while millions of Nigerians still lack access to reliable power,” Obi declared.

Driving home his argument, the former Anambra State governor pointed to South Africa and Egypt — both with significantly smaller populations — as benchmarks Nigeria has catastrophically failed to meet. “Nigeria is not even producing one-tenth of what those countries generate, and that must change,” he said, noting that each of those nations generates and distributes over 40,000 megawatts.

Obi further pushed back against a culture of governmental excuse-making that has long frustrated Nigerians on the power question. “This is something we have carefully studied, and we are not going to come into government and start making excuses about why it cannot be done,” he stressed, signalling that his administration would arrive with a ready blueprint rather than inherited alibis.

Beyond electricity, Obi outlined plans to tackle Nigeria’s mounting unemployment crisis through what he described as honest and transparent policies. Central to that agenda is targeted support for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises — the backbone of the Nigerian economy — through tax incentives, financial support, and access to affordable credit. He argued that empowering this critical sector would create jobs and drive broader economic development at scale.

The pledges, delivered with notable specificity, mark Obi’s clearest articulation yet of his 2027 policy priorities — and set a measurable standard against which voters and critics alike will hold him accountable should he assume office.