Emeka Offor, the Chairman of Chrome Groups and Promoter of Interstate Electrics Limited is trending for allegedly having a hand in slowing down the actualisation of the Geometric power plant in Osisioma, Aba.

It took nearly two decades for Geometric to finally get a shot at fulfilling its promise to provide 24-hour power supply to the city of Aba after it turned on the first of its four power-generating turbines for the first time on Sunday, February 25, 2024.

Emeka Offor, who was a close friend of Namadi Sambo, Nigeria’s Vice President at the time, was said to have frustrated the operation of the power plant primed to deliver uninterrupted power supply to Aba.

Emeka Offor, who was blocking the project, had Pius Anyim, secretary to the government of the federation, in his pocket, while Sam Amadi, the chairman and CEO of NERC, was beholden to Anyim.

Geometric was licenced in 2005 to deliver power supply to Aba and Ariaria business units, just two out of 18 business units in the Enugu Disco licence areas.

However, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) sold EEDC to Emeka Offor’s Interstate Electrics without exempting Aba from the sale, thereby causing friction between Interstate Electrics and Geometric.

The backing of then Vice President Namadi Sambo titled the balance in favour of Offor’s Interstate Electrics.

According to sources, the former vice president had vested interests in Interstate Electrics and wanted the company to end up buying Enugu Disco.

It resulted in a lot of disputes and lawsuits at a federal high court in Abuja.

Long story short, 19 years later, the 181-megawatt Geometric Power Plant in Aba, described as the biggest investment in the Southeast is a Reality!

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