A Political Analyst, Adetokunbo Pearse, has adjudged President Goodluck Jonathan’s promise of stable power supply by mid-2014 as sensible and opined that the promise should be “viewed in proper context.”

Speaking on Sunrise Daily, Mr Pearse said the President’s “optimism is based on the investments and the policies that have been put in place in 2013 and before.” So “as far as energy is concerned I believe the President. I agree with that and expect that we should be optimistic.”

He posited that improvements have been made in the delivery of power to citizens as “we’re already seeing a difference in supply. It used to be less than 10 hours. People say (now) we have about 10 hours in many parts of the country.” He counted this as “a reason to be optimistic” that the privatisation policy will pay off, judging by its success in other sectors including telecommunications.

He regarded investments which didn’t yield results in the past as “mistakes” but encouraged Nigerians to be patient.

He however advised citizens to be more watchful of government as the President makes efforts at bringing better system of governance through the proposed national conference.

“There’s too much centralisation in the country now,” he said and added that there is “too much power in the centre (and) not enough in the states and trickling down to the community leadership (that is local government).”