The nation’s Federal Capital Territory is in company with five states of the country thrown into darkness after staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) suddenly downed tools on Monday over welfare issues.
Their action, disrupted power evacuation from injection substations to the company’s franchise areas for distribution to electricity end users.
The Management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said though it has available bulk power for delivery to the distribution load centres of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) for offtake to its customers but was constrained by the shutdown of AEDC operations by its striking workers.
According to TCN in a statement by the General Manager Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, “Power evacuation from injection substations across AEDC franchise area has been disrupted following a shutdown of the AEDC facilities by its in-house workers’ union.
“TCN regrets this disruption and assures Nigerians that normal bulk power delivery to AEDC will be restored as soon as the injection substations are opened for onward electricity supply to consumers.”
AEDC management has apologised for the blackout following the industrial action embarked by the workers saying “We would like to assure all our customers that all hands are on deck to resolve the issues that prompted this action.
“We would also like to apologise to our costumers for the inconvenience and disruption”, said a terse statement by AEDC’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Bode Fadipe,