On Monday 7th of January, at around 9am, the voter registry department of the Independent National Electoral Commission was ravaged by fire destroying some equipment.
However, reports coming out of the Electoral body says that the early morning inferno will have no effect on coming elections.
"The fire outbreak has no effect on the coming elections as no data was affected,” Director (Public Affairs) of the INEC, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger, told journalists in Abuja on Monday.
The Commission’s Director of Information and Communications Technology, Chidi Nwafor, who also confirmed the incident said,
“Our data, sensitive data system, and our saver where all the data and operations are kept are intact; nothing has been damaged, we are still investigating. It is just that office and some office equipment were burnt.”
Thank goodness no life was lost.
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