The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Electoral Institute in Abuja has been gutted by fire.
The fire which began at about 11pm on
Saturday destroyed bags, envelopes, election forms and electrical
control panel/ switch in the institute’s warehouse before it was
contained at 2am on Sunday.
Before INEC spoke on the incident, there
was apprehension, especially in Abuja on Sunday that some sensitive
materials for the March 28 and April 11 general elections might have
been affected by the inferno.
INEC described the items damaged by the fire as “non-sensitive and old materials” used for the 2011 elections.
The electoral body also ruled out
political sabotage and assured Nigerians that the incident would not in
any way affect the conduct of the forthcoming elections.
INEC Director of Security, Mr. Shettima
Ngilladar, who conducted journalists around the affected area, said
there was a power surge which caused the electrical panel/switch to go
up in flames.
He explained that no materials for the
general elections were in the warehouse as of the time of the fire as
they had been moved to all the states of the federation.
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