Update: Fire razes INEC office in Abuja

Onyxnews Nigeria reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Media Centre in Abuja was on Friday morning razed by fire.

This reliable online news platform quoted The Punch, that the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, confirmed the fire incident to pressmen.

Giving an update on the fire incident, he said that the incident would not affect the administrative or technical operations of the Commission.

Onyxnews Nigeria reports that the electoral body stated in a statement released through its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who pointed out that the fire incident did not cause any substantial damage to the building.

The building is an annexe, detached from the main building of the INEC’s headquarters.

Okoye said, “Firefighters attached to the Commission swiftly responded to contain the inferno and they were later joined by their colleagues from the Federal Fire Service headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).”

“The fire was extinguished within a short period of time and did not cause any substantial damage to the building.”

“Apart from some office furniture and equipment, nothing sensitive was destroyed. Reports of party primaries and conventions are intact.”

“The campaign finance database is also not affected. The incident will, therefore, not affect the administrative or technical operations of the Commission in any way.”

He added that investigations into the cause of the fire incident had began.