The Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, has said that in his bid to effect steady electric power supply to Umuahia, the state capital, the processes for the state to buy the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), to restructure Umuahia power supply, have been done.
Otti announced this yesterday at the Geometric Power, Aba, during a reception organised by the Management of the company for former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was at Aba on Monday to commission Geometric Power’s new 2 X 15 MVA, Ogbor Hill Sub-Station.
Otti, who indicated that by yesterday, May 6, the state government will be making EEDC an offer for the Umuahia Ringed Fence that will provide steady power for the eight local councils not currently covered by the Geometric Power, said: “We have done all the due diligence and all the evaluations, and by Tuesday 6, May 2025, we will be making an offer to EEDC.”
The governor, therefore, directed the Commissioner for Power and Public Utilities to discuss the wheeling of the EEDC excess power to the Umuahia Ringed Fence with the management of the Geometric Power.
Otti estimated that with all the 11 sub-stations (of Geometric) ready and the nine local councils connected, Abia would have over 80 megawatts of excess power from there.
According to the governor, “Ordinarily, what would happen is for that excess power to be injected into the national grid, but then, with the deregulation, our discussion with Geometric Power is around wheeling that 80 or 88 megawatts or any excess power into the Umuahia Ring-Fence. And so, once we are in control, that excess power will go to Umuahia.”