Public affairs commentator, Mahdi Shehu, has criticised the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, over his recent comment that some Nigerians asked him to slow down because their freezers were “freezing.”

Shehu described the minister’s claim as false and accused him of making misleading statements.

In a post on his X account, Shehu said the minister’s statement was an “irredeemable” lie.He wrote, “When telling barefaced lies becomes a trademark, it transmutes into pathology and hence incurable and irredeemable.

“Such is the case in the minister’s shameless lie that smells to heaven.”Shehu’s reaction followed Tegbe’s remarks during the commissioning of a 3-megawatt solar hybrid power project at the University of Abuja on Wednesday.

Speaking at the event, the minister said recent Federal Government interventions had improved electricity supply in some parts of the country.

Tegbe claimed that some areas that previously experienced prolonged power outages were now receiving as much as 18 hours of electricity daily.

According to him, some residents had even asked him to slow down because their freezers were freezing.He said, “Some areas called me to say, look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing.

“That is what a freezer is meant to do. Let it freeze the food that needs to be frozen.”The minister’s comments have since attracted criticism, with Shehu challenging the credibility of the claim.