Adedeji Adeleke is constructing Nigeria’s largest thermal power plant, set to be completed by January 2025.

Speaking on Tuesday as a layperson from the West-Central Africa Division during the Seventh Day Adventist general conference annual council in Maryland, USA, Adeleke said the 1,250MW power plant costs $2 billion.

“In Nigeria, I’m in the electricity business I own power plant. I generate presently about 15 per cent of the electricity made for Nigeria,” the CEO of Pacific Holdings Limited said.

“I have Chinese engineering companies that work for me. I’m building, almost completed by January by the grace of God, my new power plant that will be the biggest thermal plant in Nigeria. It’s a 1,250 megawatts power plant. It will become operational in January.

“But during the cause of the design and getting all the permits we ran into difficult government officials.”

The philanthropist, who is the father of Afrobeat star Davido, said the permit was denied for environmental reasons.

Also president of Adeleke University, he said a particular government official, whose name he did not mention, tried to ensure that the project never saw the light of day.

However, Adeleke said he prayed about the issue and God came to his rescue.