This Is Not Good!! Fire Guts INEC's Electoral Institute (Photo)

A fire incident occurred on Saturday night at one of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) warehouses located at its Electoral Institute along airport road, Abuja razing non-sensitive materials of the 2011 elections.

The institute contains most of the warehouse of the commission and the central store of the commission, but as the Director of INEC's Voter Education and Publicity, Osaze Uzzi, said: "None of the sensitive electoral materials for the Presidential and National Assembly elections and the governorship and state assembly elections were affected."

Also, the Electoral Institute's Director of Security, Shettima Ngiladar, said the fire which lasted for about four hours before it was put out by the fire fighters, was said to have been caused by an electric surge within one of the warehouses.

The Director said the incident would not affect the preparation for the upcoming elections since the burnt items were the non-sensitive materials like bags, forms and envelopes used in the 2011 general elections.

“The fire incident started yesterday (Saturday) at about 11 pm and it took the fire men to put off this fire after about 2-3 hours. The fire started from the electrical panel in the warehouse here. It started when the power was restored, there was no light then.