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Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by iwaeda(op): 10:38pm On Feb 11

The Aso Rock Presidential Villa is expected to fully disconnect from the national electricity grid by March 2026 following the completion of its solar power project, the State House Permanent Secretary, Temitope Fashedemi, has disclosed.

Fashedemi made the revelation on Wednesday while defending the State House 2026 budget before the Senate Committee on Special Duties at the National Assembly complex in Abuja.

This is according to details of the proceedings transmitted to State House correspondents by the Presidency on Wednesday evening.

He told the committee, chaired by Senator Kaka Lawan (Borno Central), that the solar installation was completed towards the end of 2025 and had been undergoing testing since December.

“We are hopeful that maybe by March we’ll be able to do a full cutover,” Fashedemi said, adding that the transition would deliver significant cost savings for the government.

The Permanent Secretary cited the State House Medical Centre as proof of the project’s viability.

The facility, he argued, completed its own solar installation in May 2025 and has since operated entirely without generator power.

He stated, “I have to say that since that time, the generator in that State House Medical Centre has not been put on for one minute since May last year.

“Only a couple of months, we used three per cent from AEDC (Abuja Electricity Distribution Company), so the rest has been strictly from the solar and from the battery electric storage system.”

The Federal Government budgeted N10bn for the “Solarisation of the Villa with Solar Mini Grid” project in 2025.

The move that sparked widespread criticism from Nigerians who argued that the decision to install solar panels at Aso Rock amounted to an admission that the Tinubu administration could not fix Nigeria’s epileptic power supply.

The 2026 Appropriation Bill contains an additional N7bn allocation for the project.

However, the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Mustapha Abdullahi, defended the project in April 2025, describing it as unsustainable for the Villa to continue paying an estimated N47bn annual electricity bill.

Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, had also cited the White House’s use of solar energy as justification for the initiative.

Before the solar transition, the State House had accumulated electricity debts nearing N1bn.

In February 2024, AEDC listed the Presidential Villa among the top government debtors with an outstanding bill of N923.87m.

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by MemphitzDgreat1(m): 10:43pm On Feb 11

Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the beat

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by eepeepook: 10:51pm On Feb 11

Aso Rock has left the grid. Nigerians will truly suffer. In the same way I get shocked whenever NEPA takes people’s electricity and laugh at news of the grid failing, our presidents will think all the bad news concerning electricity are made up. Sensible ones have since parted from the grid. I pity una wey remain. 5 million Naira will solve your electricity issues for half a decade. Remain stingy to yourselves. Una too like hard life.

iwaeda:
The Aso Rock Presidential Villa is expected to fully disconnect from the national electricity grid by March 2026 following the completion of its solar power project, the State House Permanent Secretary, Temitope Fashedemi, has disclosed.

Fashedemi made the revelation on Wednesday while defending the State House 2026 budget before the Senate Committee on Special Duties at the National Assembly complex in Abuja.

This is according to details of the proceedings transmitted to State House correspondents by the Presidency on Wednesday evening.

He told the committee, chaired by Senator Kaka Lawan (Borno Central), that the solar installation was completed towards the end of 2025 and had been undergoing testing since December.

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“We are hopeful that maybe by March we’ll be able to do a full cutover,” Fashedemi said, adding that the transition would deliver significant cost savings for the government.

The Permanent Secretary cited the State House Medical Centre as proof of the project’s viability.

The facility, he argued, completed its own solar installation in May 2025 and has since operated entirely without generator power.

He stated, “I have to say that since that time, the generator in that State House Medical Centre has not been put on for one minute since May last year.

“Only a couple of months, we used three per cent from AEDC (Abuja Electricity Distribution Company), so the rest has been strictly from the solar and from the battery electric storage system.”

The Federal Government budgeted N10bn for the “Solarisation of the Villa with Solar Mini Grid” project in 2025.

The move that sparked widespread criticism from Nigerians who argued that the decision to install solar panels at Aso Rock amounted to an admission that the Tinubu administration could not fix Nigeria’s epileptic power supply.

The 2026 Appropriation Bill contains an additional N7bn allocation for the project.

However, the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Mustapha Abdullahi, defended the project in April 2025, describing it as unsustainable for the Villa to continue paying an estimated N47bn annual electricity bill.

Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, had also cited the White House’s use of solar energy as justification for the initiative.

Before the solar transition, the State House had accumulated electricity debts nearing N1bn.

In February 2024, AEDC listed the Presidential Villa among the top government debtors with an outstanding bill of N923.87m.

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by Burob: 10:51pm On Feb 11

MemphitzDgreat1:
Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the beat

If u like no go meet your state & local government to elevate u from poverty, guaranteed 10 years from now, u go still dey where u dey.

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by SixSeven: 12:59am On Feb 12*

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Meta said you should talk to your neighbours as if they can hear you. That's how you know artificial intelligence from real. Have we tried talking to our governments? How Nigerians became comfortable with this thing is insane, some people use industrial generators that work with diesel. Now everyone is going solar too because of government negligence. Tinubu himself changed the power supply at the Villa to solar. GCFR
Generator Commander of the Federal Republic.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7532602447609564421

Generator noise is not the loudest of your problems, it is the fumes that are the silent killers and probably one of the reasons for the increase in cancer cases in Nigeria without us knowing. Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a major component of fuel generator fumes. Carcinogenicity of these compounds has long been established. Those pollutants are not safe for your air and direct contact with your skin, water and environment. Imagine sitting behind the exhaust of a vehicle. That's what we are doing to ourselves.
If you cannot sleep well because of the noise, your health is affected. If you cannot hear well, because of the noise, your hearing is affected.
If you cannot breathe well because of the smoke, your health is affected. If you have the money, switch to solar but what sense does that make if you still live in an environment where your neighbours still use generators? You see why Nigerians need to solve this problem as a collective instead of doing I beta pass my neighbour competition.

Who did this to us undecided

All I want to say is they don't even care about us

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by deji17: 1:39am On Feb 12

The rest of Nigerians are saying:
Don't leave us. Don't leave us!!

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by Berankis: 1:45am On Feb 12

Same man that said if you don't have electricity, don't vote for me. So his plan was to convert forcefully everyone into APC. This President lacks character! He Is a man of deceit and verbosity.
So what has he achieved so far? They will soon come again with their lies and deceptive words very soon.
Fugitive Government!

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by OredoPikin2: 1:45am On Feb 12

Burob:
If u like no go meet your state & local government to elevate u from poverty, guaranteed 10 years from now, u go still dey where u dey.

When Tinubu was attacking GEJ then, there was no state or local govt then Abi?
Enemies of Nigeria

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by Kingzjayzee: 1:54am On Feb 12

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/aso-rock-to-disconnect-from-natl-grid-in-march-perm-sec

the problem be say no matter wetin anybody talk, these people go still do wetin dey their minds to do

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by Roon9(m): 1:56am On Feb 12

Wtf! Imagine mtn CEO switching to glo😂😂
Naija na movie

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by MatrixCircle: 1:57am On Feb 12

Then connect to International Grid, so PBAT will be connected as he is always at international.

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by Judolisco(m): 2:02am On Feb 12

Nothing like nepa light.... Ino go talk too much

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by Helinuss: 2:02am On Feb 12

Omo apc people no get conscience ooo. They have done all they criticise Jonathan for and they have surpass it by far

If president himself, who has the billion dollar state resources and the power to fix light decided to leave national grid what is the hope of the masses

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by floss(m): 2:03am On Feb 12

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Re: Aso Rock To Disconnect From National Grid In March – Permnent Secretary by floss(m): 2:04am On Feb 12

Nigeria would’ve been a better company if it was owned by a private Nigerian instead of the British.

Reason being that Nigerians know how to take care of their properties more than government owned properties.

In a private company like Nigeria, electricity will never run out, everything will be touch of class

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