A billionaire businessman and father of popular music star David Adeleke, also known as Davido, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke has disclosed that he has a firm that generates about 15 per cent of Nigeria’s electricity.
He disclosed this while speaking at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s General Conference Annual Council 2024.
Adeleke revealed that he is in the process of constructing a 1,250-megawatt power plant worth $2billion, saying that upon completion, is expected to be the largest in the country and that it would be operational in January, 2025.
He said as a businessman in electricity, he owns power plants and generate presently about 15 percent of the electricity needs of Nigeria.
The elder brother of the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, said he has Chinese engineering companies that work for him, adding that his tenth new power plant will be the biggest thermal power plant in the country.
Adeleke disclosed that while preparations for the project were underway, an unnamed government official threatened to prevent its completion.
Despite this challenge, Adeleke credited the near-completion of the project to the mercies of God, stating that it is a testament to divine intervention that the venture has progressed this far.
Adeleke noted that his Chinese friend had to travel down to Nigeria to discuss a way out because he never believed that prayer was enough to get the project done.
He affirmed that prayer did as the then Minister of Power granted the approval because he saw that the project was a brilliant one.