{"id":20403,"date":"2024-02-21T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=20403"},"modified":"2024-02-21T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:53:35","slug":"to-avert-disconnections-tinubu-directs-immediate-payment-of-aso-rock-electricity-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/21\/to-avert-disconnections-tinubu-directs-immediate-payment-of-aso-rock-electricity-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"To Avert Disconnections Tinubu Directs Immediate Payment Of Aso Rock Electricity Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has directed immediate settlement of outstanding electricity bill of the State House Abuja due to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information &amp; Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday, the President\u2019s directive followed the reconciliation of accounts between the State House Management and AEDC.<\/p>\n<p>He said contrary to the AEDC\u2019s initial claim of N923million debt in paid advertorial in newspapers, the State House outstanding bill is N342,352, 217.46, according to a letter by the management of AEDC to the State House Permanent Secretary dated February 14, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving reconciled the position to the satisfaction of both parties, the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has given assurance that the debt will be paid to AEDC before the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the example of the Presidency, Chief of Staff also urged other MDAs to reconcile their accounts with AEDC and pay their electricity bills,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jnews_inline_related_post_wrapper left\">\n<div class=\"jnews_inline_related_post\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_21 jeg_postblock jeg_module_hook jeg_pagination_nextprev jeg_col_2o3 jnews_module_219292_0_65d506a0db610 \" data-unique=\"jnews_module_219292_0_65d506a0db610\">\n<div class=\"jeg_block_heading jeg_block_heading_2 jeg_subcat_right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has directed immediate settlement of outstanding electricity bill of the State House Abuja due to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC). According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information &amp; Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday, the President\u2019s directive followed the reconciliation of accounts between the State House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20404,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions\/20404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}