Abia State Governor, Alex Otti revealed that Aba will soon have independent power generation after conclusion of work on the Geometric Power Limited’s power plant in one or two months.
Otti made this revelation on Tuesday in a statement through his official Twitter account when he received the Chairman of Geometric Power Limited, Prof Bartholomew Nnaji, a former Minister of Power and his entourage at his office.
Gov Otti said he was happy as a result of the development.
He continued that the State and GPL are currently speaking with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited on how to tackle the gas supply problem.
“Right now, we are buying power from the National Grid, that is why power is not reliable yet, and so, we would like to ask our citizens of Aba to bear with us that we are getting there. We are there.
“The turbines to power the electricity plant, which were taken abroad for maintenance, have been brought back to the plant and reinstalled.
“We are now working with the NNPC to resolve the gas supply issue to the plant,” he said.
It was reported that when completed, the Geometric Power Aba Limited, located in Alaoji Aba, would add 188 megawatts to Nigeria’s electricity output.
