Ondo INEC Office Fire: Over 5000 PVCs Destroyed, INEC reacts
Afnews Editor
Sep 11, 2020
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to fire incident at its Ondo headquarters on Thursday
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The fire destroyed no fewer than 5,000 card readers meant for the Oct. 10 governorship election in Ondo State. However, no life was lost.
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Reacting, Prof. Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education expressed shock at the incident.
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He described the fire incident as a setback, but noted that it would not affect the conduct of the governorship election.
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Okoye added that investigation would be carried out to ascertain the cause of the incident.
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