Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company, provided more smart meters than the other DisCos in 2025, according to an electricity pressure group.
In a statement released after its first executive committee meeting of the year in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, the South-East zone of the Electricity Consumers of Nigeria disclosed that all 12 DisCos in Nigeria supplied a total of 175,302 meters under the Meter Asset Provider scheme and 44,104 prepaid meters under the vendor-financed framework as of the third quarter of 2025.
The group cited a recent report published by The PUNCH, based on data provided by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission.
“Aba Power alone gave end-users over 100,000 smart meters by the end of last September,” the South-East zonal ECAN declared in a statement signed by its Chairman, Joe Ubani, and Secretary, Chris Okpara.
The association cited figures sent monthly to NERC by the head of the metering team at Aba Power, Alfred Atega.
“This means that Aba Power exceeded its 2025 target of giving its customers 100,000 smart meters by 2025, which many analysts thought was a stretch goal, meaning something that was initially thought to be impossible,” ECAN said.
“More importantly, the data shows that Aba Power, despite being Nigeria’s youngest DisCo and the smallest in terms of population and geographical spread, as it covers only nine of the 17 local government areas in Abia State, provided more prepaid meters than the other 11 DisCos combined.”
The other 11 DisCos were carved out of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria and were privatised in November 2013, although the Federal Government retains a 40 per cent stake in each.
ECAN further disclosed that Aba Power provided 122,464 prepaid meters by the end of last year through vendor-finance arrangements with four Chinese and Nigerian metering firms. According to the group, the utility supplied 116,883 single-phase meters and 5,581 three-phase meters.
Quoting Aba Power’s Senior Brand and Communication Manager, Edise Ekong, ECAN stated that the company had metered all 122,464 customers connected to 27 feeders in and around Aba, Abia State’s economic nerve centre.
“We have actually since this year increased the number of metered customers to 133,000,” Ekong, who is also an engineer, was quoted as saying. “Work is progressing on three feeders, namely the Omoba Feeder, the Geometric Feeder, and the Polymer Feeder, as they have system issues. The customers on these feeders will be metered once repair and rehabilitation work on them is concluded.”
Meanwhile, Aba Power’s achievements in unprecedented meter rollout and reliable electricity supply have attracted commendations from stakeholders in the commercial city.
President General of the Abia Amalgamated Traders Association, Chief Alphonsus Udeigbo, attributed renewed investor interest in the state to Aba’s status as Nigeria’s city with the most reliable power supply.
He said in the statement, “Investors like those promoting the 12-storey Marriott Hotel in GRA Aba or the Enyimba Economic City would not have been responding so favourably to Governor Alex Otti’s campaign for investment flow into the state if the electricity problem had not been resolved significantly.”
Similarly, the President General of the Aba Landlords Protection and Development Association, Leo Emesirim, told journalists that “Aba is set to take its rightful position as Nigeria’s centre of indigenous manufacturing due to constant and quality power supply.
“The Abia State government recognises the primacy of electricity, and so has been working hand in hand with Aba Power and the Abia people to take the state to a different level.”
