The plane, which was carrying Minister of Agriculture Akinwunmi Adesina and many other passengers, landed safely at about 5.55am, airport officials said.
After the incident, Adesina, believing it was caused by an outage in public power supply, reported the matter to Minister of Power Prof. Barth Nnaji.
Spokesman for the Ministry of Power, Mr. Greyne Anosike, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Adesina had reported the matter to Nnaji.
Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, Deputy General Manager for Public Affairs at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), confirmed the incident. She said because of unstable public power supply, it was the practice of FAAN to switch to generators whenever a plane was landing.
But the generator “tripped off for two minutes” when the BA flight was landing, adding that at that time there was also a power outage from PHCN, Mrs. Yakubu said, quoted by NAN.
Anosike, however, insisted that there was no power outage from PHCN at the time of the incident.
The Minister of Power yesterday said he was launching an investigation.
In a statement in Abuja, Ogbuagu Anikwe, a spokesman for the minister, said
initial findings showed that the power cut was not caused by the PHCN or the Abuja Electric Power Distribution Company as there was electricity supply when the incident occurred.