A section of INEC head office gutted by fire

Yusuf Bello| A section of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters was on Friday gutted by fire.

Festus Okoye, the commission’s national commissioner in charge of information and voter education, who confirmed the incident to reporters in Abuja, said the fire affected the department of electoral and party monitoring part of its head office.

He, however, assured that there was no cause for alarm as the incident was a minimal one and did not affect sensitive documents at the commission’s headquarters.

According to him, the fire broke out as a result of an electrical fault at the office of the director of electoral and party monitoring located close to the Media Centre of the Commission.

The incident, Okoye said, has been brought under control by men of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Fire Service.