Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has been captured in a viral video showing off his multi-million naira mansion in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The clip, sighted by First Daily on Tuesday, the 12th of August, 2025, featured Adelabu inside the white, tastefully furnished home alongside a group of his supporters.
Adelabu currently heads a power sector grappling with numerous hurdles, including a liquidity crisis, erratic electricity supply, repeated grid collapses, disputed tariff structures, affordability issues, and outdated infrastructure.
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He recently disclosed that the federal government’s outstanding debt to electricity generation companies had reached N4 trillion by the close of 2024.
A World Bank report released in June 2025, Tracking Sustainable Development Goal SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2025, ranked Nigeria as the country with the largest number of people lacking electricity access, 86.8 million citizens.