FOUR communities in Plaza area of Akure, Ondo State capital, will soon be relieved of four-year power outage.
This followed Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s directive that a new 300kVA transformer substation be installed for the communities.
He directed the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Utilities, Tunji Light Ariyomo, an engineer, to ensure that a new transformer was provided for the communities after the necessary engineering assessment.
The transformer arrived on Sunday to the delight of residents in the communities.
Ariyomo, who handed over the transformer to the community leaders, explained to them that Akeredolu directed his office to provide it.
He told residents that Akeredolu was aware that there were serious power issues in Ondo South.
He added that the governor could not believe that there was any community in total darkness in the state capital.
The special adviser, therefore, ordered that the power problems should be fixed immediately.
Ariyomo said a power substation would be built for the four communities to be connected to the power line at Plaza, hence the new transformer.
Appreciating the governor for the speed at which the problem was fixed, the Chairman of the Communities Association, Goke Adurota, said the Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc (BEDC) officials had disappointed them several times after the residents had spent so much on fixing the power problem.
He, however, assured the governor that the residents would pay back by voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates on Saturday for the House of Assembly election.
Adurota promised to mobilise the youth, women and men in the four communities to appreciate the governor with their votes.
