Chijioke Okwuokenye, the Managing Director (MD) of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), has clarified the power interruption in the nation’s capital.
“Why we said major areas of Abuja are affected is because most areas in Abuja get between 20 to 24 hours of supply in a day,” he said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday.
“Averagely, we’ve been able to achieve about 16 hours in most of these areas that we are talking about,” he added, saying that there won’t be blackout entirely in the nation’s capital but “availability is going to be reduced. We have to ration the available capacity to reach the existing areas.
Okwuokenye said the transmission station was shut down because of an ongoing road project in the area.
Last Friday, the company announced that many parts of the Nigerian capital would be without electricity for 16 days between January 6 and 21, 2025 “due to FCDA relocating the 33KV DC Airport Feeder and 132KV Kukwaba-Apo Transmission Line Towers along the Outer Southern Expressway”.
