The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia state has been set alight.

The news was confirmed by the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in a statement issued on Monday via Twitter.

The statement read in part that the recently renovated office in the local government was set ablaze Sunday night.

“There are no casualties on the part of our staff on guard duty but the building was virtually destroyed. Apart from furniture items, all electoral materials and office equipment were destroyed”, it read

The destruction is the latest in the state, after the Arochukwu LGA office was vandalised and ransacked in October 2020 and the Aba South office was burnt in December. 

Last week, an INEC office in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State was also set on fire.

Mr Okoye, in the statement, noted the impact of such attacks on the Commission’s activities ahead of the 2023 political cycle, including the ongoing expansion of voter access to Polling Units, resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), pending bye-elections, end-of-tenure elections, adding that the electoral body will be holding an emergency meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) next week to discuss the attacks.