Gbajabiamila forced to adjourn plenary over power failure

By our reporter| The house of representatives was on Tuesday forced to adjourn plenary over power failure in the lower chamber.

House speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, was compelled to call for an adjournment after the power went out.

The situation forced the lawmakers who used their phone torchlights to exit the chamber.

The incident comes a day after major cities in Nigeria including the commercial nerve centre Lagos and the nation’s political capital Abuja were plunged into darkness following the collapse of the national grid for the seventh time in 2022.

Various electricity distribution companies confirmed the development in statements directed to their customers.

Ikeja Electric said the national grid collapsed at 10:50 am on Monday, noting that “this has affected the transmission stations within our network and resulted in the loss of power supply to our customers.”

Also, the Eko Electricity Distribution Company said, it regrets to “inform you of a system collapse on the national grid at precisely 10:52 am. Presently, all our injection substations are out of supply.

“We are working with our TCN partners to restore supply as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.”

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc equally released a similar statement but said the grid collapsed in the nation’s political capital at 10:55 am.

In the southern part of Nigeria, the Benin Electricity Distribution Company said the development took place at 10:51 am, causing disruption to the power supply in the coverage area which includes Delta, Edo, Ekiti, and Ondo.

Also, the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company Plc said the system collapse caused an outage in the South-East states of Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Imo, and Ebonyi.