Gunmen wielding explosives bombed a local election office and a police station in southeast Nigeria, killing a teenage boy and destroying voting materials, officials said, in the latest attack on electoral authorities in the region.
LAGOS, Nigeria –
“The building was substantially damaged. All furniture and other items were destroyed, including non-sensitive materials recently delivered in readiness for the 2023 General Election,” INEC’s national spokesman Festus Okoye said in a statement late Wednesday.Okoye said voters cards yet to be collected by their owners for the ballot were not affected by the fire.
INEC has expressed concerns over repeated attacks on its facilities, fearing they may jeopardise the election, though INEC’s chairman has said the upcoming ballot will go ahead as planned and without delays.
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