The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, on Monday declared that liquidity is the major solution required by the troubled power sector .

This is just as the Managing Director of Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Chiedu Ugbo informed the Senate Committee on Power that the Calabar Power Generation Company under its ownership , is the best performing power plant in the country .

GALAXY TV  reports that the need for liquidity into the power sector was made by the Minister of Finance in his submission to the committee investigating the controversial Make up Gas ( MUG) Reprocessing Deal Involving the Ministry of Finance , NDPHC, Calabar Generation Company Limited and ACUGAS Limited.

The Minister who made the submission said the agreements on Gas supply between NPDHC and ACUGAS Limited was inherited by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 since it was signed in 2011 during President Goodluck Jonathan 's administration .

According to him, just as the Ministry of Justice was not aware of the contract agreement, the Ministry of Finance was also not part of it from the beginning but since government is a continuum, Ministry of Finance later came into it for the purpose of facilitating the required liquidity .

In his own submission before the committee, the Managing Director of NDPHC, Chiedu Ugbo, said the company as a result of the Gas supply agreement with ACUGAS Limited, is taking Gas from three out of five units and generating power from Calabar plant to the National Grid which according to him, is the best power plant in the entire country . He said NDPHC went out of its way to construct 80 kilometres gas pipeline for utilization of MUG in Calabar and Alaoji power plants .

The Special Assistant to the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mallam Dahiru Moyi, said the issues on ground about contracts agreements being investigated by the Senate Committee on Power, was not about restructuring but providing the required liquidity which the Ministry of Finance is doing through collaboration with the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas ( NLNG)

In his remarks, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (APGA Abia South) thanked the stakeholders for giving the committee clarity on the issue but added that, the investigation is still on going.

On his part, the Vice Chairman of the Committee, Lola Ashiru, charged company to look inward in order to meet up with the obligations before it.