{"id":61243,"date":"2025-02-14T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61243"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:35:23","slug":"fire-guts-inec-office-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/fire-guts-inec-office-in-sokoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Guts INEC Office in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fire has razed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Gwadabawa LGA, Sokoto State, destroying critical electoral materials.<\/p>\n<p>INEC\u2019s National Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, confirmed the incident, which occurred on February 11, 2025, damaging 558 ballot boxes, 186 voting enclosures, and other materials.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary reports suggest a power surge as a possible cause, though investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were recorded, and INEC plans to secure a temporary facility to maintain operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi A fire has razed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Gwadabawa LGA, Sokoto State, destroying critical electoral materials. INEC\u2019s National Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, confirmed the incident, which occurred on February 11, 2025, damaging 558 ballot boxes, 186 voting enclosures, and other materials. Preliminary reports suggest a power surge as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61245,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61243\/revisions\/61245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}