Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Office in Akure, Ondo state was last night eviscerated by a mysterious fire which destroyed over 5100 card readers.
The fire started around 8:00PM and destroyed the container where the card readers were kept. It was gathered that the fire affected the ICT Unit of the commission
The National Commissioner in charge of information and voters education, Festus Okoye expressed shock over the disaster.
He stated "is definitely a setback but it won’t affect the October 10 governorship election. They said that the fire affected the ICT section of the commission, and over 5100 card readers had been burnt in the incident.
Okoye explained that about 1000 card readers delivered to the INEC from Osun were also burnt in the fire incident while the over 4000 belonging to the INEC in the state were also burnt.
